Unless i know you, you can add another to your sample. I’m exactly like your friend. I grew up in Yugoslavia and likewise, i find it hard to identify as (north) Macedonian. It was, at least for some of us a really great society to grow up in. I miss it many aspects of that life.
I've been wondering what would cause my new MBP to start crawling periodically with super high kernel_task usage (600%). Is this kind of throttling common practice for Windows or Linux? To me, this echoes what's been happening with iOS slowdowns and feels to me like compensating for poor cooling on the MBPs.