Looking to read news about smart home tech, new product reviews etc

Any recommendations?

I have a concoction of devices from all kind of manufacturers with cryptic codes in their names. Each device exposes multitude of sensors which makes the dashboard look like a mess.

1. Is there a best practice for renaming devices ? Do you name them by their location ? By their utility ? manufacturer ?
2. How do you identify the devices later in case there's a problem and one needs to be replaced / battery need to be replaced ?

I am building a laundry to landscape greywater system. I have seen some people in some videos that are using T fittings as 50% splitter like in this image:

(taken from here)

You can see that the water that flows from the source pipe is being split to two destinations:

1. The basin that is watering each tree.
2. The continuation to the next tree.

My question is, is T fitting actually considered a 50% splitter ? Because I would imagine water will want to continue flowing in a straight direction, so most water will continue flowing and not "turn" 90 degrees in the pipe for the tree basin.

Remember that water is not going in pressure, but with gravity.

So why do I see so many of these designs and are they correct ?

Thanks

As they are quite invasive, I have plenty of them in my garden. If I shred them to small pieces will it be good for mulch ? Talking about the entire stem, not just the leaves