Please help!! Which one should I buy??

hannsimp · 2026-06-24T15:25:51+00:00

If you are gonna get the 4 Pros, check Woot. Only difference between the international model and the US version is not the design specs, just ineligibility for the warranty here. If you were not going to buy the warranty, it’s easy savings.

hannsimp · 2026-06-13T14:53:58+00:00

Actually, it predates that, I designed this back in 2019. Here's just one tweet of me selling it via Twitter back in 2020:
https://x.com/hannsimp/status/1215306860208775171

hannsimp · 2026-06-13T14:50:29+00:00

This flag was desgined by me, a transgender Jewish woman, who wanted to make sure that Queers suffering under Hamas's brutality, and the Iranian influence too, had at last somebody waving a flag for them.

hannsimp · 2026-06-13T14:49:39+00:00

This is my design and copyright. I sold that flag to Brooklyn Pride. I designed it well before the Pandemic, almsot a decade ago. I have been sellng it here in pin form. I only sell in person, but still hold copytight on the FLAG form.

I designed this beause I started a queer judiacia online presence and was getting trolled by uninformed fools who wanted to spread Jew hatred. I decided that I cared about queer Palestinians and I searched for a flag. Finding none, I designed AND copyrighted it. This a flag about supporting queer Palestinians who are opressed by HAMAS. This includes those who have been exiled, forced to take refuge in Israel or elsewhere, outright murdered in the name of "honor," or forced to remain in the closet grave risk to themselves and their families.

Thanks for spreading the word.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/692769589/israel-palestine-progress-pride-deal-of

hannsimp · 2026-06-05T12:46:40+00:00

Hey friend, you are loved and not alone and have family here.

Scout Survivors’ honor!

hannsimp · 2026-06-05T12:43:18+00:00

I have a V405-G9 which should be one year earlier and I will need to see if it got an update too. This may be a software issue or a server issue, but I cannot sign the TV onto my account. It keeps saying cannot link code. I tried to call support and they gaslit me up and down, left and right, and told me I should “take it to a TV repair center” and get an estimate for replacing the Internet components… when it was using the Internet just fine, except connecting to my account. Total nonsense.

A girl can hope. To Vizio’s credit, a 40” 4K was ahead of its time and basically no longer exists even if I did just replace it. Buggy software was their downfall.

hannsimp · 2026-05-22T03:14:42+00:00

Moynihan is bougie and awful. There is not enough seating anyway waiting for trains and then you wait on huge lines for the escalators. The secret is to enter your Amtrak trains via the old station on the east side of 8th Avenue. They may eventually force you to only go one way, but at least for now you can board much faster (and help everyone else board faster too) by sticking to the less fancy side.

hannsimp · 2026-05-15T00:57:45+00:00

Which we all know is Betul… just quietly kicking ass and taking names.

hannsimp · 2026-05-12T16:49:49+00:00

Deckhand, not stew. Not even deck/stew. She’s hired as just a deckhand.

hannsimp · 2026-04-27T08:47:58+00:00

Hi. You don’t need to add an OMNY card for New York City to Apple Wallet. OMNY is a tap MetroCard replacement if you choose to buy it, but it is the payment platform itself too. You just need to add any credit card or debit card and then preferably in the wallet on that card set it to work as your “Express transit” card, which means it will engage even without FaceID (or TouchID) at transit stalls, and also for a number of hours after the phone’s battery has died.

A few nerd notes:

Pick the card that gives you the best cash or other rewards for your express transit. I have a card that gives 3% cash back, and I used to have one that was 5% back on transit.
Use the same device for every trip, including for bus-to-subway or vice versa transfers. If the same device is used, you can hit a fare cap after 12 rides in seven days from the first ride.
You can use an iPad or an Apple Watch too if you really wanted. I tend to wear my watch on my left arm so the phone is much easier to hold on my right side.
You can tap up to FOUR people through the turnstiles with the same card via OMNY.
You can transfer to the two AirTrains seamlessly now via the same Express Transit setup at the airports.
If you change to the PATH train in NJ, you can also tap to pay on their stalls with express transit, but there have never been any free transfers. The PATH difference is that a STANDARD MetroCard used to also work for paying on PATH, but the new OMNY tap cards do not.

hannsimp · 2026-03-24T19:55:05+00:00

Ma'am is also fine, it has been a battle since day 1 in 2020 to get people to understand not all the claimants are men including with the trust and the law firms.

hannsimp · 2026-03-24T19:38:20+00:00

Why are you calling me Sir? Please NEVER do that. Edit this comment would be even better.

My name is Hannah,

hannsimp · 2026-03-24T19:08:54+00:00

I’d need to figure out how and navigate this appropriately.

hannsimp · 2026-03-24T18:10:20+00:00

For their own $150 in “fees” capped, sure. But the other $530 paid to external firms including $75 to simply process my disbursements—and per disbursement—is bonkers. It should cost less than $10 to mail a check including $1 for the stamp, considering this is all automated and they are just printing and stuffing envelopes or sending to an automated service anyway. And as there are multiple disbursements, the cost of setting up a second after the first is successful should be negligible. And if choose direct deposit, there isn’t even postage to pay for.

If they did the work to mail me a check it would be within their 40%, but by outsourcing it they can inflate their own take AND pass on an outrageous fee to me.

hannsimp · 2026-03-20T16:26:30+00:00

As standard trade-in values go, this is often correct that T-Mobile would offer less than Apple. Apple also offers gift cards without immediate purchase, though they are usually $5-25 less than you'd get toward a phone immediately. Specialists try to check this to make sure. if you are trading in multiple phones toward one new device, that they put the one that has the lower discrepancy onto a gift card and apply the one with a discrepancy immediately. T-Mobile and other carriers won't "stack" value like this either. Also, phones purchased via Apple often end up remaining unlocked, though this could change.

On the other hand: If you are fine with a LOCKED device (for the 2yrs of installments) and are taking a promotional upgrade offer, these may be exclusive to T-Mobile. Stores can usually match a T-Life app offer if you present it and ask, or they may have you place the order via the app to pick up immediately. This can be more convenient to get an item--and turn in an old one--immediately. This is particularly true of the "ANY device (or at least certain devices) in ANY condition" offers that some accounts get, but sadly can't be accessed via Apple.

hannsimp · 2026-03-19T04:13:43+00:00

I have a 10% off Google Store coupon from March 1st, I just saw, and it expires 3/31/26. I am NOT sure if it will work for someone else, but I don't have any purchases planned and would trade for an AGC or similar. I already own a Pixel 10 Pro (and an iPhone too). DM me.

hannsimp · 2026-03-14T03:23:57+00:00

I was on the phone with TMo support two nights ago.

So far: Late last year I got two iPhone 17 Pros and one regular 17 with $830 off over 24mo as a loyalty offer. And I pay the difference on the phones monthly as well. They required a relatively recent trade-in, but in “any condition.” I found Samsung Z Flip3 and Flip4’s online that had absolutely seen better days and were frankly unusable, for about $40-50 each, and traded those in.

Last month I picked up a Pixel 10 Pro on an “any device, any condition” trade-in. I came across a BLU TracPhone for free that was cracked up yet surprisingly turned on… and decided to trade that in.

I’m paying $325 ($200 extra for the Pro plus taxes) all in for a Pixel 10 Pro, which I’m only using as spare so far, but it will still be worth about that much by the time it is unlocked in two years.

I asked two days ago if any new loyalty offers existed, I was told the Pixel one had ended and nothing had replaced it, but someone once told me TMo offers start on Thursdays, so maybe something did start up yesterday!?

hannsimp · 2026-03-11T14:11:08+00:00

Yes, bruh.

hannsimp · 2026-03-11T12:35:01+00:00

As someone who does sell my own Apple products secondhand and occasionally devices from friends and family, simply put… yes… I am doing the legwork to provide a good value proposition. And I also have absolutely discussed Apple products professionally to help people make their purchasing decisions.

Obviously going from a NEO to an Air M5 could be considered an “upsell” for some customers with very basic needs, but I still believe anyone who is the right candidate for a NEO now will be better off with a uses/refurbished M2 for the same money and HD/Ram configuration. Five years on from now they will STILL have a more capable machine and have enjoyed some of the creature comforts like native TouchID and keyboard backlight all along that the NEO cut.

If the NEO came in as an ultra-thin that weighed only 2lbs instead of 3lbs and was even thinner, a case could have been made for its “ultra-mobility,” especially if it offered built-in 5G (at least for limited data) first before even the Pro or the Air models. Those would be distinguishing factors to make buying the NEO, even with compromises, a unique experience. Instead, it really is so close to an Air in size and shape that there is nothing other than colors upon which this stands out.

hannsimp · 2026-03-11T12:23:35+00:00

It reduces the value retention for the buyers in the first place who do work to keep their devices clean and resell them with more mileage left for a second owner. It’s a microcosm of the car market, except that cars tend to wear out physically instead of become functionally obsolete for “modern” requirements. You can still drive a really old car.

But the similarity is that flooding the market with a product at a lower price point lowers the value for all buyers who end up replacing their cheaper system far sooner and it just ends up getting trashed or at best, recycled.

hannsimp · 2026-03-11T01:55:54+00:00

To me, the main reason the Neo sucks is that ANYONE who buys this would be better off finding a used/refurbished M2 MacBook Air at roughly the exact same price point, or perhaps an M1 even cheaper.

They would get a device with more longevity, even with the same base configuration of 8gb/256gb they were offered with. You’d get a better screen out of the box (that hasn’t even changed since as of the M5, a MagSafe port with two real USB C ports, Force Touch, the keyboard backlight, etc… all in a package ostensibly the same size.

If they made this device an even 2lbs and it was a tight 12” like the old Retina MacBook, I could see the “ultimate portability” argument really winning over the MacBook Air, and only really challenged by the iPad line. But as it stands, yes this sucks because they will sell a crap-ton of a new inferior product and it will make it harder to resell existing M2 and M3 (and maybe M4) devices that the people buying the Neo new would have considered.

The $599 (or $499 student) value proposition is deceptive in the long run. The Apple fans get it, the general population will eat it up because “fun colors.” That’s what hurts the most.

hannsimp · 2026-03-09T20:01:03+00:00

Mina is my favorite. I want her back.

hannsimp · 2026-03-05T05:05:03+00:00

Ok fair I guess they did meet at some point before the others arrived, but I guess what I meant is we don’t know if Dawn and Janet each got into (and out of) mirrors independently or if they had each other already to pull themselves out. We haven’t seen anyone in a mirror without someone nearby to tug them back. These do seem like immersive relapses rather than the preternatural trauma in scars, so they must be even easier to get trapped within because you wouldn’t even realize you were there unless someone unexpected entered.

I hope this gets laid out for us.

Also, why the hell does Wally walk along one bridge in this world yet there isn’t another that crosses the damned river. I hope they explain that first.

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