DuckOverload

I use Nova as well. I like it a lot. My home screen is just a grid of all my apps, with a folder for less-used apps. I have two widgets: a one-block local weather report, and a two-block battery meter (mostly to see the power remaining on my earbuds). Everything is on one screen, and I never have to scroll through the general app drawer.

Nova. It's not fancy, but it gives me the control over the grid. I can remove icon labels. Etc.

News Feed Eradicator is a must have. I can check in on Facebook for personal messages and events, even post occasionally... but I don't see the feed and I'm not the least bit tempted.

It's also good for sites like Reddit (which I'm migrating away from, of course) where you can disable it for a set amount of time, to enjoy some idle web browsing time without slipping into a vortex.

Also, not a browser extension, but I use Google's Family Link to moderate my web use. I can't access social media on my phone. My wife administers it. It's occasionally inconvenient, but on the whole it has been transformative.

My phone's home screen.

I'm not obsessed with it, per se. I have it dialed in and don't think about it much. But I use a special launcher and organize the app icons carefully. When I get a new app, I put time in to consider where it goes and where to shuffle things around. I'm very deliberate about the widgets I keep around. I'm proud of it and I've shared my layout and the apps I use on Facebook. So I think this counts.

Buttons? Ew.

I have consistently been Luddish about moves like this (removign physical keyboard, eliminating phone jack, even the tablet form factor in general) but I think I was mostly wrong, and monimizing hardware features in favor of software seems to improve user experience.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

I took over my mom's minivan during college. My frat bros made fun of me at first, but damn that was a great road trip vehicle.

Though on the whole, my current Subaru Outback might be my favorite because it came with a sweet sound system. I've never splurged on premium sound, and this was included because I wanted the towing capacity of the premium trim. Game changer.

If you really want to escape from the data-mining ad-driven model, you could always switch to Google Fiber.

Yup. Deadpool is entirely about breaking the fourth wall, and the first movie executed that beautifully while injecting a lot of heart into the story. The fact that other movies try to replicate that out of context for laughs is unfortunate.

Last year's DnD movie is the best film of the last ten or so years. It succeeded on every level, except in the box office.

My hypothesis is that Hasbro insisted on branding it "Dungeons & Dragons" to push the brand, and non-gamers figured it wasn't for them. If they'd have made the main title "Honor among Thieves", all the game nerds would have seen the DnD logo, and others wouldn't have been turned off *. As it stands, people will find it and it'll become the new "Starship Troopers" that bombed but shines forever in retrospect.

* See "Arcane".

I think this is pretty cool. Sure, capitalists are gonna capitalist, but here we have subversive moves in a positive direction.