You can't exactly jump in a Daihatsu Mira and pull off a school zone gouranga. The gluesniffers in Parliament need to make the pain of registering a vehicle increase with size.
The cravings for booze and sugar get so bad at night after a day working at a desk. It's hard to get to sleep when you're jittery. The cravings don't even go away on a full stomach. I sometimes feel completely bloated from snacking and somehow feel like my sugar level is tanking at the same time. It's impossible to eat your way out of it. It takes about two standard drinks to calm it, and that's way too much to drink as regularly as these cravings occur.
Exercise throughout the day seems to help. It's not an issue when on vacation.
There was a time that Dick Smith published a catalog like this. It was mostly supermarket products, and needed constant updating as companies outsourced overseas.
Just for my car, I can think of:
Motor oil - Penrite instead of Valvoline.
Detailing - Bowden's Own instead of Meguiar's.
Tyres - I don't think anything is made here anymore. Not even the Bob Jane or Dunlops.
I play baseball. It's easy to avoid US products, as Japan and Canada make heaps of great stuff. You won't find anything Australian though.
Most of Australia's consumer money spent on US products goes to Facebook Amazon Netflix Google and Microsoft.
For tech, I guess Stan instead of Netflix?
I avoid most physical US products because they're often not metric, and a pain to work with.
For example, the lawnmowers at Bunnings have Briggs ans Stratton or Honda (US) engines. I bought a Rover from an independent mower shop. Great aussie mowers.
I'm fairly sure it's all the antivirus, which in itself is a kernel rootkit. The whole laptop is getting replaced in a month so there's not much point in fixinig it.
I fired up procexp and found nessus scanning every file on my drive. I found the SentinelOne had written 10GB of logs since start. I found some bullshit dell service was slamming the CPU. It's all shit that my company put there.
I found that it adds an extra 7 minutes to a 12 minute build when I compile my project, compared to doing it on WSL. The Windows bloat is insane.
I would spend 4 hours writing 100 lines of code, then spend another 8 hours reducing it to 50 lines.
A LOC is a liability, not an asset. A LOC you didn't write is even more so. I don't think AI is even good at refactoring and optimising. My static analysis tools do a better job.
I have 32GB on my Windows PC laptop it can't do three at once.
Running the backend (java) and the frontend (react native) in intellij uses 29GB RAM, so I must run Android on real hardware over ADB+USB. Running an android simulator pushes it over the edge.
Also: Laptops are shit. On Windows, the tau is so bad that the cores are throttled straight after boot because the cooling is rubbish. It almost never hits full speed. It can't survive more than 40 minutes on a full battery. It might as well be a NUC.
You can't exactly jump in a Daihatsu Mira and pull off a school zone gouranga. The gluesniffers in Parliament need to make the pain of registering a vehicle increase with size.