If the plates are made of metal, leave them outside in the sun for an hour or so, and then beat them with a hammer.

Structured approach for hammer would be probably learning when not to use hammer I guess?

I want to cover a little bit of everything so that diving deeper later becomes much more efficient. For example, I want to understand the directory structure at a surface level before diving deep into installing and understanding the utilities and limitations of specific tools/packages.

surprisingly russia is at 5th.