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Free as in rule (lemmy.world)

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 44 points 1 week ago

https://thewarhorse.org/amputee-veterans-face-chronic-lack-of-va-care-prosthetics/

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

Also: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete - "Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported"

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 21 points 1 week ago

Thanks, that's actually the article I was looking for.

We're literally living in a cyberpunk dystopia.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

a boring cyberpunk dystopia

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

And another: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255074/former-jockey-michael-straight-exoskeleton-repair-battery

Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue ... "I was told they stopped working on any machine that was 5 years or older,”

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

We really need standardization in batteries. I usually think that about ebikes, but this is another good example.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Okay as a Middle Eastern guy I have absolutely zero respect for Iraq war veterans so honestly I couldn't give a shit about this guy specifically, but from a realpolitik perspective isn't this just bad for morale?