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Bionic Eye Patients Are Going Blind Again After Manufacturer Decides They're Obsolete (futurism.com)

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Welcome to Capitalism, where you can lose your vision because some corporation didn't get enough money.

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

Well I guess it was inevitable after corporations made consumer electronics "leased" rather than bought. Just look at the text for Windows 10 license for example. Or the notorious John Deere tractors. Prosthetics were a next logical step.

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

These corporations are a plague upon this earth. I've spent a couple years setting up my own servers running my own services, some of which I wrote myself (search engine), and buying open-source hardware to distance myself from them.