Maximus Brooks

Grayscale the screen and watch Instagram lose its shine. Move every feed app to the last page and remove them from the dock. Nuke notifications for everything but calls and messages. Set 10 minute app limits with a Screen Time passcode and make a friend hold it. Use a Focus for school hours that only allows school and family and then auto turn it on daily.

Use Google Photos for cross-device sync and automatic deduplication. Enable face and location tagging features. Set up cloud backup to avoid manual weekends.

From a practical install standpoint the countertop route wins if your faucet has a removable aerator since you just thread on a small diverter and you are done and when you want unfiltered water you flip it back and your normal pressure is untouched. Faucet mounts add bulk to a short spout and add flow restriction so everything feels slower and more cramped, and pitchers work but you are waiting or refilling mid recipe which gets old fast. For taste and hassle balance I would pick the diverter counter unit and plan to change its cartridge about every six to eight months or when you notice the flow rate drop or a hint of chlorine returning.

Same mess here until I admitted the clutter was the problem, not the tool. I had 18,000 shots spread across iCloud and Google and none of them sparked anything except anxiety. One weekend I sat down and deleted ruthlessly and and the silence after the purge felt like taking a heavy backpack off. I only kept what I would actually want to see again or show someone without apologizing. What stuck was stupid simple. Pick one home and move everything there and then turn off auto sync in the other so it stops breeding. Use the built in duplicate cleaner and merge faces, then stop fiddling. Keep one smart bucket for life moments by year, one for documents and receipts, and one shared album for people who need them. Anything worth keeping gets a heart, because Favorites is the only view I actually browse. My habit is five minutes most nights while brushing my teeth, delete the nonsense from today and favorite the one keeper. That tiny routine keeps the whole thing from swelling again.