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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I want to be a cyborg but after seeing how tech, especially software, has developed (like, I don't even really want to buy a new car because how tf am I gonna fix it), I don't think I can trust it. Imagine if your ears' firmware just stops being supported.

Any cybernetics would have to be built for me by a hobbyist with a workshop full of Raspberry Pis or something

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You didn’t pay your subscription for your enhanced eyes, so you woke up blind this morning.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Nah, you get downgraded to the essentials plan: 20/40 eyesight, dry eyeballs, ads on your peripheral vision and random eye twitching throughout the day

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

Jockey literally lost his exoskeleton due to end of life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

People with bionic eye implants are going blind again after the gadget expired inside their bodies. More than 350 people have a discontinued retinal implant in their eyeballs. The invention was once a cutting-edge option for restoring sight, but it has been replaced by newer technologies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Any cybernetics would have to be built for me by a hobbyist with a workshop full of Raspberry Pis or something

And by "or something," you probably mean 3d printers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Open source fitmware or nothing.

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

and strictly offline

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

I want an open source electric car.

I would download a car.

[–] sukhmel 2 points 1 month ago

In a loose sense, any implant makes you a cyborg, in a more strict sense implants that control something in your body do. Heart rate control by a pacer, insulin level control by an implant, hearing aid, some more complicated implants all make you a cyborg but usually not the cyborg one imagines

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

and a few arduinos

[–] MajorHavoc 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Imagine if your ears' firmware just stops being supported.

You're exactly right to be concerned. It's starting already: Cory Doctorow on Orphaned Implants

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, plus the "cutting edge" prosthetic tech we currently have is mostly overhyped marketing.

There are about a dozen powered prosthetics I always see on social media that always look really cool and the "patients" always go on and on about how useful it is......What people don't realize is those "patients" are being paid by the manufacturer, and usually part of the deal is that they get the limb for free.

They don't tell you about having to wear a heavy battery pack that only lasts for a couple hours. They don't tell you that you have to pre-program routines like tying your shoe laces. That you have to purposely concentrate on flexing residual muscle groups in your limb to activate those routines. Nor do they tell you that the majority of patients who own those devices usually revert back to a manual prosthetic for functional tasks, or just choose not to wear a prosthetic at all because they can achieve more function with their stumps.

While prosthetics have started looking more futuristic and functional, unfortunately we haven't really advanced any technology that actually improves function and utility since the late 90's. And I highly doubt we'll ever make a prosthetic that provides more utility than the limb it's replacing, not in our lifetime at least.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember many years ago there was some study being done into deer antler as a way to integrate implants with zero chance of rejection (something about deer antler being bone that penetrates through the skin without causing any problems), and something about using squid cartilage for implanting circuitry for similar reasons, but the coolest advancement that I've seen for prosthetics has been 3d printing.

I saw an open source project for 3d printing prosthetic limbs with a focus on making affordable prosthetics for kids since they grow so quickly they need new fittings quickly as well. And beyond that, I haven't heard of pretty much anything new in easily decades. The fact that much of our prosthetics technology isn't that different from what they had in the Civil War is sad.

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

saw an open source project for 3d printing prosthetic limbs with a focus on making affordable prosthetics for kids since they grow so quickly they need new fittings quickly as well.

Unfortunately 3d printing has mainly been a bit of a gimmick in the field of prosthetics, especially the more diy projects. Most people think that prosthetics is an engineering field with a side of medicine, when in reality it's more of a medical field with a side of engineering.

The project you were referring to never really took off because it ended up being detrimental to the patient's long-term health. With how quickly children adapt to their conditions, if you don't provide them with a prosthetic that provides more utility than their residual limb, they end up adapting to never wearing any prosthetic. Which in turn can vastly lower their mobility and ability to interact with their environments.

The fact that much of our prosthetics technology isn't that different from what they had in the Civil War is sad.

I wouldn't say it's quite that bad. I mean I did carve a wooden socket in school, but haven't ever seen one in a clinic setting. Prosthetic tech really advanced in the 90s with the introduction of materials like carbon fiber, titanium, new thermoplastics, and advanced mechanical knee units. With the amount of repetitive ground force reaction a human body can produce in motions, our field is pretty limited by the advancement of material science.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have an artificial lens in one eye (like a contact lens that's been glued in place) that has built in uv protection. Not cybernetic as such, but I'd say it was adjacent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Fun fact, many of the intra-ocular lenses and contact lenses that provide UV protection do so just by the properties of the material they are made of, not any special coating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A friend of mine changed his internal lenses to synthetic ones due to cataracts. He was used to the dim light of cataracts and it took him a while to get used to a brighter world.

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

Dude had built in shades and didn't know it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Lol, And all it cost me the ability to focus on anything not exexactly 37 inches away.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We're approaching a cool cyberpunk future but can't even get wet streets with reflective purple neon signs 😔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seattle has the wet streets covered. Someone just needs to install some signs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

We've got the wonder bread sign what more could you want?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Lots of places in East Asia with those vibes

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

Talk to c/hydrohomies if you have trouble with streets not being wet enough

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

We are not even going to get dense cities like Night City. Imagine how much worse the cyberpunk dystopia is going to be with a 2.5 hour commute each way from the suburbs along a mega highway.

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

Look, us YIMBYs are trying our best, okay?

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

Do NYC, Seattle, SF, London, Tokyo, and all of the other dense cities not exist anymore?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

None of those are even close to the density of Night City. Tokyo has a density of 6,363 persons/km^2, compared to Night City's density of 65,000 people/km^2.

Also those are 'old' cities. They have historical reasons for increasing density. Night City is a city founded and built by mega corps, represents the 'new' world that the mega corps want to build. My point is that in our world, the type of cities that are being built and our mega corps want, are all suburban spawl.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

This is fair, if we had neon shit and cybernetics it would make the world a little cooler I guess.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

there's zero punk in our current society

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I honestly believe the closest thing to real world cyberpunk is the anti corporate / foss / selfhosted digital sovereignty "ideology" that lemmy coincidentally is a part of. For the rest, like cyberdecks and body augmentation we just have to wait a bit.

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

If you got a powerful tablet and installed Kali on it, isn't that effectively a cyberdeck?

[–] sukhmel 1 points 1 month ago

Well, there's "low life" part for sure

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We already have cool cybernetic implants. We also have even cooler corporate greed and a massive lack of right-to-repair laws so that you can get stuck with a deactivated implant!

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

Also you don't have cyberdecks with 40mm microCD drives but smartphones without expendable storage.

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

those cool cybernetic implants aren't that cool imo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Left is advertising, right is actual result

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

70s, 80s and 90s were absolute peak Western world and we should go back there and live there forever.

inb4 life was worse because "insert irrelevant shit no one cares about here"

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

definitely seems like weve been ripped off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like the word "burgerpunk" to describe our dystopia not as neon lights and cool sexy cyborgs but more the aesthetic of a DoorDash ad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Amazing. What's more burgerpunk than making AI images about burgerpunk game concept art?

Coming to buggy early access 2025 on EA games subscription app

Prompt:

!physical game cover for latest game called "burgerpunk" inspired by boring, mundane real world problems. Collage of run down strip malls, boring office spaces, high gas prices and sad people stuck in traffic. "Super boring, 10/10 - IGN" !<

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

True- not enough beige

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

We also have killer robot dogs and illicit cloning labs irl now.