floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoFirst Human to Receive Neuralink Implant Says It Lets Him Play Civilization VIwww.pcmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down115
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minus-squarewizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63·8 months agoYep, there’s already horror stories about other implants where the patients were left high and dry when the company that made them went under.
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-28 months ago“Sorry your pacemaker has the silliest little flaw but the patented blobbed firmware could only be updated with some vendor program on Windows XP that was reliant on XP-specific libraries but Service Pack 2 broke it after the company went under…” Same stuff with car electronics. Maddening.
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoOr it just shuts off because it can’t connect to the company servers any more.
Yep, there’s already horror stories about other implants where the patients were left high and dry when the company that made them went under.
“Sorry your pacemaker has the silliest little flaw but the patented blobbed firmware could only be updated with some vendor program on Windows XP that was reliant on XP-specific libraries but Service Pack 2 broke it after the company went under…”
Same stuff with car electronics. Maddening.
Or it just shuts off because it can’t connect to the company servers any more.