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What would be a valuable thing to have memorized by heart? (sopuli.xyz)
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Try to keep it practical (like something that would be fairly doable, you just havent gotten around to it...yet)

There are apps that you can input text into and they can replace the characters in each word incrementally to help learn them. Wanna get into that

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[โ€“] ptychodus@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Proper sequence of attaching jumper cables.

[โ€“] olbaidiablo@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That one is easy positive, negative, nipple, nipple.

[โ€“] troybot@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Which one is the positive nipple?

[โ€“] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

The one that's red.

Wait... they're both... hmm

[โ€“] olbaidiablo@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

The right one

[โ€“] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Negative negative
Positive positive right?

Sometimes a chassis connection?

[โ€“] tuck182@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The important thing is not to complete the circuit near a battery, since it can cause sparks which can ignite the flammable vapors that batteries tend to emit when discharging. This is especially important near the dead battery, which has potentially been discharging quite a lot recently.

So the usual sequence is:

  1. Dead positive
  2. Live positive
  3. Live negative
  4. Dead ground (to the metal chassis, ideally not right next to the battery)

I usually start by clipping the dead negative cable to something non-conductive to keep it out of the way and then move it to ground as the last step.

[โ€“] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like a hose? What is non conductive?ย 

[โ€“] tuck182@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I wouldn't clip onto a hose, but maybe some plastic flashing or a plastic bracket. Most cars have something near the battery that would work. It's not essential; just can make it a little easier.