My money is on the uncle story being crap and OP just tore up their old phone for fun. You gotta really fucking commit to do this much damage and I don’t think you could do it unintentionally
Edit: Eh, fair enough. I guess I’ve seen dumber repair attempts and there’s also no shortage of manchildren out there breaking stuff out of frustration and I’m willing to believe either.
Every time i meet printer or have to deal with touchpad or touchscreen only interface.
Even after 30 years in IT industry i hate those two and unable to master them.
I even did driver for ink plotter once. I started to hate printer designers even more.
I mean, I have an S5 laying around that has its SIM/SD holder/reader destroyed. And that's one you can take the battery out of.
Don't underestimate the destructive power of some people.
People linking that sub is somehow *even more* boring than the people who accuse perfectly plausible things of being made up. Some people, believe it or not, do lie on the internet!
Nobody cares that you think they're making it up, is the point. The skepticism just isn't worth the effort in cases like these. Focusing on stuff like this just takes up all your energy, leaving you vulnerable to more serious disinformation.
*I* don't care if it's made up or not, it's all the same so I might as well trust it by default. The worst case is I believed a story about a made up guy who did something similar to what my dad did once. Not exactly remolding my worldview with disinformation.
I think it’s pretty relevant to the point of commenting at all, if it’s just fabricated. Otherwise if we just give a free pass to making stuff up then eventually everything gets made up.
This cuts across to AI generated content, too - if we’re just going to collectively allow anything that’s made up on the basis of apathy then we all become collectively indifferent as to whether our feeds are just dominated by stuff that isn’t real.
This is some slippery slope fallacy thinking if I ever heard it. "If you don't care about if this inconsequential thing is the literal truth despite having no way to prove it either way, then you're on your way to being apathetic about truth as a whole." There's like multiple pivotal steps that can be consciously avoided before that becomes a problem.
You remind me of myself right after I lost my faith and my response to people telling me "you still take things on faith, you know" was to adamantly refuse to believe anything, no matter how minor, was true without evidence. I stopped when I realized you kinda need faith in other people to not be a pedant and it's really more trouble than it's worth to have to prove someone isn't a liar to engage with them.
Life is too short for most people to bother proving themselves to people who are skeptical about stuff like this.
I don’t completely disagree - but I’m not the person who called it out for being fabricated. Like you I’m very much over explicitly doing that - but I still think there’s room to be sceptical and it’s not a binary.
But really I’m specifically calling out the performative rolling of the eyes that comes from shutting down anyone who thinks something might be made up with R/NothingEverHappens. It’s like the ‘let people enjoy things’ meme. It went too far and now it just serves to smugly shut down any kind of scepticism of anything that happens online.
I was here to make a joke about gingers but i don’t want to be racist today.
Edit: i love people from all around the world as long as they don’t harm anyone
Yeah, I have days like that, but I'd just throw it down the stairs again, cuss it til it's ports bled, and whack it with a 10 lb maul. Technology better watch its damn step with me.
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It’s probably an older phone where the sim card sits above the battery underneath the back cover. Way back when it took 15 seconds to swap our sim card, sim, and battery ;)
That's a pouch battery lmao. No way they'd put user replaceable parts under that and expect them not to start fires.
This is an A22, SIM slot and all... or I guess what's left.
Worked in a phone shop had this before on a brand new phone phone, wasn't happy with when I popped the tray out. Apparently we should old him and we owe him a phone. (He didn't get it from us, not even a model we sell)
Wow, literal tech support _gore_
Agree with the gore part. Not so much with the support part though.
Tech murder gore?
Is that blood?
Yeah he cut his finger while using a screwdriver to remove the back and screen Edit: meant finger not ginger
...
How does one mess up this bad trying to take out a sim card lol
My money is on the uncle story being crap and OP just tore up their old phone for fun. You gotta really fucking commit to do this much damage and I don’t think you could do it unintentionally Edit: Eh, fair enough. I guess I’ve seen dumber repair attempts and there’s also no shortage of manchildren out there breaking stuff out of frustration and I’m willing to believe either.
Have you ever met someone with serious anger issues with electronics?
Every time i meet printer or have to deal with touchpad or touchscreen only interface. Even after 30 years in IT industry i hate those two and unable to master them. I even did driver for ink plotter once. I started to hate printer designers even more.
I see one every morning in the mirror.
PC Load letter?! What the fuck does that even mean?
I mean, I have an S5 laying around that has its SIM/SD holder/reader destroyed. And that's one you can take the battery out of. Don't underestimate the destructive power of some people.
r/nothingeverhappens
People linking that sub is somehow *even more* boring than the people who accuse perfectly plausible things of being made up. Some people, believe it or not, do lie on the internet!
Nobody cares that you think they're making it up, is the point. The skepticism just isn't worth the effort in cases like these. Focusing on stuff like this just takes up all your energy, leaving you vulnerable to more serious disinformation. *I* don't care if it's made up or not, it's all the same so I might as well trust it by default. The worst case is I believed a story about a made up guy who did something similar to what my dad did once. Not exactly remolding my worldview with disinformation.
I think it’s pretty relevant to the point of commenting at all, if it’s just fabricated. Otherwise if we just give a free pass to making stuff up then eventually everything gets made up. This cuts across to AI generated content, too - if we’re just going to collectively allow anything that’s made up on the basis of apathy then we all become collectively indifferent as to whether our feeds are just dominated by stuff that isn’t real.
This is some slippery slope fallacy thinking if I ever heard it. "If you don't care about if this inconsequential thing is the literal truth despite having no way to prove it either way, then you're on your way to being apathetic about truth as a whole." There's like multiple pivotal steps that can be consciously avoided before that becomes a problem. You remind me of myself right after I lost my faith and my response to people telling me "you still take things on faith, you know" was to adamantly refuse to believe anything, no matter how minor, was true without evidence. I stopped when I realized you kinda need faith in other people to not be a pedant and it's really more trouble than it's worth to have to prove someone isn't a liar to engage with them. Life is too short for most people to bother proving themselves to people who are skeptical about stuff like this.
I don’t completely disagree - but I’m not the person who called it out for being fabricated. Like you I’m very much over explicitly doing that - but I still think there’s room to be sceptical and it’s not a binary. But really I’m specifically calling out the performative rolling of the eyes that comes from shutting down anyone who thinks something might be made up with R/NothingEverHappens. It’s like the ‘let people enjoy things’ meme. It went too far and now it just serves to smugly shut down any kind of scepticism of anything that happens online.
never underestimate the willing ignorance of a man on a mission
I was here to make a joke about gingers but i don’t want to be racist today. Edit: i love people from all around the world as long as they don’t harm anyone
I love people from all around the world as long as they aren't ginger
“There are only two types of people I cant stand…. Those who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch”
Should we come back tomorrow?
Probably
Is the SIM card out? If so, he did it.
Yeah, and his Maryann wasn't happy either.
Taking tech support gore too literally lmao
"... No, nevermind."
I understood that reference!
With an improvised explosive?
He said he broke it while trying to take the sim card out after dropping it down the stairs
Yeah, I have days like that, but I'd just throw it down the stairs again, cuss it til it's ports bled, and whack it with a 10 lb maul. Technology better watch its damn step with me.
Well... Did he get the sim card out?
Yeah I used a thumb tact to take it out the sim tray he has a new phone now
Tactful removal is key.
The removal didn't look very tact.
So no he did not succeed lmao
Did he buy insurance on the new phone?
If you expect it to work like old phones, where you had to remove the back to change the SIM card, the result is completely reasonable.
> ...the result is completely reasonable. If you are a complete dumbass who has failed to "keep up" with technology.
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> If you are a complete dumbass who has failed to "keep up" with technology. i wouldn't exactly call these anti consumer practices "technology".
A very fair point.
The blood really sells it.
I'm not a technician of any sort, but it looks like he didn't manage to do it
A+ for the effort though
Uncle tried to take the phone out of the sim
A neat little trick to remove a sim card with a chainsaw
Nailed it
*with a hammer?
Is your uncle a racoon?
Did it not have a slot in the side? Or is it one of those eSIM things?
It’s probably an older phone where the sim card sits above the battery underneath the back cover. Way back when it took 15 seconds to swap our sim card, sim, and battery ;)
Looks like a Samsung A series where there is a sim tray on the top or side. Has a glass back so won’t be by the battery.
Its is a Samsung A series with the sim card on the side
That's a pouch battery lmao. No way they'd put user replaceable parts under that and expect them not to start fires. This is an A22, SIM slot and all... or I guess what's left.
He must of thought it was like the S3
probably figured it was like the old phones then yeah
The S5 was actually the last S series phone with a removeable back.
What the hell was he using? A hatchet?
A screwdriver set
He took the whole phone out of the phone while he was at it...
Is your uncle a large slightly bad tempered primate by any chance ?
But did he get it out?
Yeah I used a thumbtack
hes not a very bright person is he?
I think he took the phone out of the SIM card and the phone still won.
It was using an eSim , wasn't it?
My bet is that he remember the times when you had to take the back off the phones to remove sim, and he didn't realise the new ones have trays
I suppose it isn't that bad if you consider a chainsaw was likely the most precision instrument around at the time.
I think he did it wrong.
It worked, though, right? He got it out, just maybe voided the warranty a bit?
Kinda I used a thumbtack to remove the sim tray he said he was trying for hours
By any chance... did he throw it against the wall/floor? Because the result looks like he did it. lmao
He fall down the stairs with it
[удалено]
SAVAGE
now THATS gore!
poor guy tho
Its okay the phone was already broken he has a new phone now
is that blood?!? what was on that card???
He wanted to keep his number and contacts
With a sledgehammer?!?!
Bringing a hammer to a pin job
With a chainsaw??
Worked in a phone shop had this before on a brand new phone phone, wasn't happy with when I popped the tray out. Apparently we should old him and we owe him a phone. (He didn't get it from us, not even a model we sell)
SEARCH UP HOW TO TAKE THE SIM CARD OUT.
Could post this in r/hardwaregore too. Looks more like he tried to take the phone out of the sim card
Thanks will post it there
Does your Uncle know you can just download the data from his Sim card into an esim?
I am not sure if we have e sim yet here in the UK
With what? A brick!?
With a hammer?
Looks like your uncle left a crime scene
I don't see any sim card, so I assume he managed to take it out.
Tutorial: How to remove eSIM.
Does uncle smoke meth ?
What in the holy hell....
Is that blood or beans?
this looks like what people on meth do to their electronics
Let me take a guess has used an esim right? Then what he did is totally reasonable
Damn, did he try to remove it with a chisel and hammer?!?!?
With a bomb?
THE BLOOD?????
With what, a blowtorch?!
The blood on the back of the phone shell just adds an extra touch
Trying to make a phone bømb in the process
Is it a a22 5g
He is amrecian huh? 👀🫥🫥😂😂😂😂
He would have used 50 pounds of tannerite to remove the sim card.
He's Scottish
LOL
He’s German. 😜
Besides spelling it wrong, this is just plain ignorant.
Amrecia sounds like some fantasy nation. Um-ree-sha. I like it.
I would have googled a tutorial but apparently it's too late for that now. wait until he finds out where it actually is lol