• Draconic NEO@mander.xyz
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    4 days ago

    And even with prosthetic limbs, access might be limited based on profitability.

    Let’s also not ignore the fact that many modern prosthetics just kind of suck in general. They’re getting better but they still aren’t great.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      not sure how that field is going, but I’m still upset that a company managed to make working prosthetic eyes, gave blind people some sigh, went out of business, and suddenly all their clients went blind again. They wouldn’t make the code upen source because it was their intellectual property.

      they didn’t get into the “bring sigh to the blind” business to help people, just for the business part.

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        4 days ago

        Yeah that’s really shitty, just another shitty aspect of capitalism protecting businesses and not people. Actually actively screwing people over for money.