9mo ago

I lost mine

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So...
- Who do these summon?
  
  They open the ~~gate~~ slot to SIM-Cardageddon.
  
  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.
  
  I'm gonna call it OCD, but in a friendly way. I'm OCD about my fingernails being short. My father was OCD about his socks wearing out at an even rate. I'm not pointing fingers. Cheers!
- 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.
- Looks not unlike a chalk outline at a crime scene.

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 3
- Same, do we win something?
  
  A 4th one

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.

I used to keep one on my keyring.
I finally took it off after the 4th time I had to pull it out of my thigh.
- I keep it in my wallet
  
  Don't use that condom.
  
  I keep a paperclip clipped to my wallet's coin compartment. Very handy

Do we have to know where it is?

I don't need that. My sim is accessible by removing the back cover and battery.
- Showoff
- You using a fairphone?
  
  Galaxy XCover 6Pro

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...

Hah, that's why I bought a little treasure chest that I have on my desk. I keep magic stuff there like usb keys, a lighter, these things (whatever they are called? Sim card pins?), anything that is small and infrequently used.
- I call them reset button pushers
- anything that is small and infrequently used.
  Speaking of, I have a date this weekend, so if I could get that back from you tomorrow that would be great

Oh, of course I still have it

I used a needle. But uhm... It was the microphone hole.
I wonder where that puts me on the responsibility spectrum.

I have one on my keychain, which is sometimes a huge pain in the thigh, the hand or the fabric of the jeans, but it's worth it, because I use it like, every six months.
- Yeah, I did that, until one day I was digging my keys out of a pocket and the prong ended embedded deep under my fingernail. Never again.

LOL, no I'm not. I'm just bad at getting rid of stuff.

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

I just have an iFixit kit with a SIM ejector head included.

I keep all useful tools. Even those crappy Allen wrench screwdrivers that come with cheap furniture.
I've met so many people who don't own a single tool, and I always try to give them my extras I've been collecting.
- Pro tip, I duct tape all the tools under whatever piece of furniture it came with. Just in case I ever need to tighten anything or whatever. I do have a tool kit with everything now but that wasn't always the case.

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
  
  You must be using thick paperclips. All the ones I've used have all worked fine. Paperclips come in a wide range of thicknesses.
  
  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.

I got mine! Let me dig though my pile of empty boxes in a room I haven't organized since I moved here like a year ago!

I have one as a screwdriver bit so I just toss them in a bin of misc metal bits.
- Love the idea of using it as a screwdriver. Stealing that little trick. Cheers!

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.

I have at least 2 that I know where they are.

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.

That's a strange looking paper clip.

It's on my keyring

Why would I keep track of something that can be replaced by a paper clip that costs a penny?
- Keep it with your paperclips? They work better like it was purpose built.

I still use one from the first phone I had which needed this crap. So I have 3 of them in total. Actually, 4, I've got one extra in a screwdriver set.

i hate you. I had one for years, i think it fell down, and it's integrated itself into my carpet by now i think...
It's gone.

Leatherman bracelet has one built in so I don't even need those

It's in the electronics box buried under a PS3, two 18 year old laptops, a graphics card that was obsolete 12 years ago, a hard drive I salvaged from an old DVR, and the bags and bags of Ethernet/coax/mini-USB/Sansa MP3 player cables, and the steam link

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.
- The "reset button" pusher. Hehe.

i have one on my key ring :D

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.
- waste your life
  Struck a nerve, did they?

I probably threw mine out.
I never use it so what the fuck do I care.

I think I have two of them.

Always carry one with me in my big bag.

I keep one on my necklace, its constantly reminding me that its still there

Bent paperclip works too.
- Safety pin is the way to go .
  
  Don’t use a safety pin. The sharp point can slip between internal joints and cause damage for certain electronics. Use a paper clip.
  
  I use a pushpin, because they're what's on hand.

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
  
  Unless you also have a foil at the back of your phone, like.
  It's a nice textured one, so it still feels good should my phone be out of the case. It also makes it less slippery.
- I do the same and never had any scratches if the case fits snugly.

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