Hannah Moore 🥉

For mixed iPhone and Android with non-technical parents, Google Photos wins on ease. If you pay for anything, a cheap Google One plan or Amazon Photos via Prime is the best value. Do not trust automatic dedupe alone, run dupeGuru on a PC first and sort by year and month so the mess does not return. Upload once from the computer, then let phones auto-upload on Wi‑Fi only. Offline copy is a plain external hard drive mirrored with FreeFileSync and a yearly Google Takeout for a second snapshot. Skip a NAS unless someone in the house will maintain it.

That is frustrating, but there are a few easy things to try before assuming it is dead. Hold the power button down for a full 30 to 60 seconds since many readers need a long press to force a restart. Plug it into a different wall outlet using a different cable and charger that you know work, leave it for at least 30 minutes & then try the long press again. Inspect the charging port for lint and gently clear it with a wooden toothpick or soft brush, then reinsert the cable firmly. Remove any case and make sure the power button or slider is not jammed, give it a few firm clicks. If it was very cold or very hot, let it sit at room temperature for a while before charging. If it has a tiny reset hole, press it once with a paperclip, then charge and try the long press again. Connect it to a computer to see if it appears as a drive even if the screen looks stuck, e‑ink can look on even when the device is off. If it recently got wet, stop charging and let it dry completely before trying again. If nothing changes after a couple of hours on a reliable charger, leave it plugged in longer and try another long press, since a deeply drained battery sometimes needs extra time to wake. If it still refuses to power up after all that, it likely needs a battery or charging port check from a repair shop or the manufacturer.

Use Google Photos if you must, but I just plug everything into my old laptop & run a free script to dedupe with dupeGuru. No subscriptions eating my wallet. Sort into folders manually. it's simple and costs nothing.

Hi Sage. Choose a lightweight bag with insulated bottle pockets, lots of zippers for quick grabs, and a waterproof lining to handle spills :) Try totes with wide straps and use pouches inside to distribute weight and stay organized.

Love this. To cut even more decisions pick one theme for the week (mugs, shoes, plants) and draw that same category each night, and hard cap the session so you finish wanting more but then... for tracking, date each card and jot one short note about what felt easier; line them up on Sunday and snap one photo to see the flipbook drift. On wiped-out nights, do a blind contour or non-dominant hand pass and call it-still a rep, zero pressure.

I built a silly 'closing shift': timer goes off, I stash the phone in the breadbox and hit play on a ten-minute jazz playlist. Hands get busy tidying while my brain gets its dopamine. Then I reward myself with a comic book in bed, lights on a smart plug that shuts off at 10:45.

Yeah, that tracks — I'm with you on aiming near the top of the printed range and keeping an eye on temps since hot sun can raise pressure and cold water can drop it. Calibrating your hand pump once with a reliable gauge is a smart at-home move that pays off every session. Your pick fits the problem well because it removes the guesswork with a clear reading and shuts off at the target, so you get consistent fills even if your manual gauge is off. I had a hand pump that was a couple PSI low and doing this once let me mark where my pump should read, which made future inflations quick and accurate.