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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

We're literally living in a cyberpunk dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

a boring cyberpunk dystopia

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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,”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

TBH I think at this point hating the VA is so universal that it's become a group morale building exercise...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Doesn't matter, had war.