I used a needle. But uhm… It was the microphone hole.
I wonder where that puts me on the responsibility spectrum.
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 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 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 3
Same, do we win something?
A 4th one
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
Why would I keep track of something that can be replaced by a paper clip that costs a penny?
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 have a bit set with one in it. Well, at least one that looks like it’s meant to be this. It works though.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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 have one as a screwdriver bit so I just toss them in a bin of misc metal bits.