arthuro8 (50)in #insomnia • 13 days agoInsomniaI’ve struggled with insomnia for most of my adult life. Over the years, I’ve cycled through a range of sleep medications. This year, I decided to cut back on Benzodiazepines after getting tired of theirarthuro8 (50)in #rich • 14 days agoThe People with the PowerThe people with the power, the rich and powerful, the dictators of nations, the billionaires of others, the elected official that follows capital's interests are the ones with power to change nations.arthuro8 (50)in #nextcloud • 15 days agoSimplicity Matters A LotNextcloud desktop client does not behave like Google Drive or OneDrive software. You can specify specific files for syncing, and sometimes it causes some weird problems like duplicating files, making filesarthuro8 (50)in #story • 16 days agoGeraldMany, many years ago, there was a man named… Gerald. 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For most mental illnesses and disorders, the argumentarthuro8 (50)in #taxation • last monthWhy Infrastructure Spending Doesn't Drive InnovationTaxation does not produce a pot of money from which funding is drawn for infrastructure projects. What governments do is decide on a bill, calculate its costs, print whatever the cost is of its currency,arthuro8 (50)in #audio • last monthThe Efficiency of Class AB Amps Compared to Class Asource It's moreso that the typical tricks to clean up digital audio don't typically result in a fidelity increase unless the noise is particularly bad. If the square waves are visible and noise isnt