Paperclip, bent staple, pushpin, breadboard wire, toothpick, 3D printer nozzle cleaner, 0000-sized cross head screwdriver, and stripped twist tie are all no match for the glorious sim tool.
Do we have to know where it is?
I have 3
Same, do we win something?
A 4th one
Why would I keep track of something that can be replaced by a paper clip that costs a penny?
LPT: if you have a case on your phone, put it inside the case (between the case and phone) and you’ll always have it when you need it
Seems like a good way to scratch the phone, might just as well go crazy with a key on the back of the phone 😅
Been doing it for ~5 years with 0 scratches… If you have an iPhone maybe they are too delicate, but I also feel like iPhones (in the US at least) don’t have SIM cards since Apple has that G.I. Joe - Kung-Fu grip
I do the same and never had any scratches if the case fits snugly.
I cut a slit into the foam of my ifixit kit and stuck it in there.
But doesn’t the ifixit kit have a sim extractor bit?
But doesn’t the ifixit kit have a sim extractor bit?
Yes, it does.
Broke my phone last week. Had mine on my keychain when the tech couldn’t find his quick enough.
Also keep mine on my keys… Well used to before children ripped it off… Need to get a new one
Oh I 100% have one, if not several. I just don’t know the location of a single one.
I’ve been searching for a lost vape for about five days. Our place isn’t even that big and it’s pretty clean because my partner won’t stand for the sort of sloppiness that I get up to when no one polices me. And the vape is a hell of a lot larger.
I have a bit set with one in it. Well, at least one that looks like it’s meant to be this. It works though.
How is it responsible to waste your life taking steps to keep track of worthless little objects of that size? If you need a thin poker use one of the many every day objects that takes the form of or includes a thin poker.
I don’t really see how tossing a thing that you might need later in a drawer and then remembering where it is counts as wasting your life.
Tossing in a drawer, definitely not. But keeping it in a place where you know where it is, will remember it, and it is definitely retrievable is different. Good luck finding that thing in a random drawer you are sure it’s in, much less a random drawer you are only kind of sure it’s in. Or if your life is such that each spot occupied in each drawer regardless of size and time of deposit is accounted for and retrievable, maybe that is just the standard I’m missing here.
What I’m saying is: I definitely have one or more of those in drawers or closets or boxes somewhere. Where, I do not know, and I could not retrieve one on command. But I could retrieve an implement to do its job. That the two things wind up being the same thing is an infinitesimal chance at best.
I dunno, mine’s right there. Although I think that one is from like 2 or 3 phones ago.
So…
Who do these summon?
They open the gate to SIM-Cardageddon.
Nah, they allow you to cross iFröst to get to SIM-gard
A mandatory software update.
I hereby grant you the title of King Responsible.
Thanks! My mom will be so proud. And then probably ask what took so long and why the rest of my life isn’t so well in order.
Looks not unlike a chalk outline at a crime scene.
You must be quintuple responsible!
You should probably just take my kids. School drop off is at 9. They don’t eat fucking anything. Best of luck.
These things suck and are too tiny to store anywhere useful. A small paper clip works the same and stores much better.
I keep mine in the phone case with a $20 for emergencies.
Agree totally. There’s no point in holding on to a special-purpose object that can have its function performed by other very common objects. The smart thing to do is throw it away immediately after the phone’s return window ends.
paperclips are too thick
What an uninspired way to approach life. You encounter something that doesn’t match your specific experience and, instead of wondering how it could be true, your only reaction is to deny it altogether. Be a bit more curious.
You must be using thick paperclips. All the ones I’ve used have all worked fine. Paperclips come in a wide range of thicknesses.
Careful - this is how you get AI.
LOL, no I’m not. I’m just bad at getting rid of stuff.
I don’t have one. Not because I had one and lost it, but because the phone I’m using was made before these existed.
Dozens of Archeology PhD theses will be written about these a thousand years from now.
Impossible! We can’t even find these things now. How will they ever find them in a thousand years from now?
One fell out of my dryer today.
I haven’t used one in over a year. Quite perplexing.
Similar useless everyday objects sitting in a museum today from less time ago that we pay money to stare at. Heck there’s a Walkman in a museum…
