Free as in rule

That’s why we use FOSS body parts.

- Is this coming panel implying that obsidian is FOSS?
- Really stupid comic.
  Even a 1:1 rip-off is still preferable if it's FOSS.
  Not to mention, we don't need to re-invent the wheel every time. A photo editor for example doesn't need to offer innovative new features to differentiate itself from Light Room, it needs to offer the tools generally used by photographers and not be Adobe.
Bruh they abandoned libretina2 and I can't install libretina3 due to package conflicts 😭 What do I do?
- You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'

I'd say to jailbreak your early bionics before they firmware upgrade out the exploits, but the risk of bricking your brain is probably a bit worse than a phone.

I'll still fucking do it out of spite, though.

bricking
Not sure if that's a correct term for the brain since it's not a hard object like a phone, router, etc..
How about puddinging?
- Or puddling, as in melting le brain

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

Also: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete - "Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported"
- Thanks, that's actually the article I was looking for.
  We're literally living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
- 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,”
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?
- TBH I think at this point hating the VA is so universal that it's become a group morale building exercise...
- Doesn't matter, had war.

We don't even allow autonomy of the flesh, I suspect the chrome is going to be subscription only.

Corporations lobby to defend their products, so I can imagine people swapping out flesh for artificial parts because you can control your own artificial uterus without permission from the government.
- As always, the wealthy will sidestep the horror.

I want robot parts as much as the next guy but bodily autonomy is crucial.

Isn't this basically what all early cyberpunk boils down to?

Yeah, but also Japan is cool
- except ironically the visuals are more taiwan
- Yeah this part kind of confused me. I feel like japanese stuff is just shoehorned into everything for no reason. Especially cyberpunk type things

That moment when the next step of your species' evolution is turned into an ethical horror show by greedy assholes...

Johnny Mnemonic is calling.

Ok. I'll return my pacemaker.

I wish I knew how to hack my hearing aids. They aren't even that bad, it's just minor functionality like managing Bluetooth pairings and the ability to create custom setting names so I'm not using "church mode" in meetings

https://youtu.be/G9kyYrM4_tE

why having a paywall if that scenario enables people to become absolute subservient machines deprived of any subjectivity?