Carsten Raddatz

@WongKaKui
Nothing is better than practicing. On the fly is fine, repetitions help. Others have said as much. :))

If the Taiwan flag in your avatar is an indicator for location, go ask grandma for tips, or go to any night market for cheap, varied food. Cheap and convenient. If that fails, there’s a 7/11 near you I’m sure.

Don’t fall into the trap “which kitchen appliance to buy”. Buying isn’t the first thing to learn here.

@RecursiveParadox Absolutely no sorting into folders. Especially not manually sorting.

Back when Aviate! was an Android launcher, before it was acquired by Yahoo and then ruined, it did the most logical thing: auto-group apps by category, location based, messenger, games. Best of all, it did not change the home screen much. Swiped right it showed the (four? five? don’t remember) most recently used app per square. All most recently used apps were always on the same screen, no opening of folders to see them, and always (after the swipe right) just a single tap to start the app. A tap on the category would open it to see others of the same category. With Aviate sorting manually was exposed as a total waste of time.

Today, Niagara Launcher “sorts” apps by the few favourites you define, and the rest is sorted by “the alphabet” with the side bar thing that zikzak025 shows. That too eliminates manual sorting, but I think folders are possible.

@Suck_on_my_Presence There was a German kid’s TV show, an episode in which to the protagonist the following happened: he woke up from a strange dream of a swamp, middle of the night, room half dark and all, and he found himself half-eaten by the nightmare’s crocodile that had leapt onto his bed. Out of his dream. Very scary!

The crocodile could be talked to, though, but his legs were already fully inside the thing so he could not move much at all. Talking was all that was possible, eliciting answers and conversation, and some reasoning about “let me go” and “why even ask” was done. In the end, that saved him, literally the talking himself out of it, the croc let go and disappeared. I had replays of that scene for months after.

@Suck_on_my_Presence Jaws did, I lived near a lake. Took me a while to realize the lake was really much too small for sharks, but the movie gave me vivid dreams.

Alien terrified me, as the house I lived in had long dark hallways where those beasts or eggs could hide. Saw the film when video2000 and Betamax were still competing. I never found xenomorphs in my house and terror faded, but the franchise stayed with me including Disneyfication.

What actually scared me more was Poltergeist. What a terrifying world, house, family, setting, glow from behind closed doors and the TV sucked you in to the other side.