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Trained repair professionals at hospitals are regularly unable to fix medical devices because of manufacturer lockout codes or the inability to obtain repair parts. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, broken ventilators sat unrepaired for weeks or months as manufacturers were overwhelmed with repair requests and independent repair professionals were locked out of them. At the time, I reported that independent repair techs had resorted to creating DIY dongles loaded with jailbroken Ukrainian firmware to fix ventilators without manufacturer permission. Medical device manufacturers also threatened iFixit because it posted ventilator repair manuals on its website. I have also written about people with sleep apnea who have hacked their CPAP machines to improve their basic functionality and to repair them.

PS: he got it repaired.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Right to repair NOW!

Medical devices should be either supported for life (with money on escrow to support it) or provided with all schematics, manuals and spare parts

Non paywalled article

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255074/former-jockey-michael-straight-exoskeleton-repair-battery

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Louis Rossmann should definitely get right on this case ASAP.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (3 children)

For a $100k device, I would expect better long term support.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

They just want him to get a new one... Why repair a $20 battery on a perfectly functioning device when you can force him to get a new $100,000 exoskeleton?

This is just more capitalist ghouls doing the only thing they know

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Remember when people unironically said "you get what you pay for"?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

You would, but if there's no reason for them to spend the money on it why?

This is what regulation is for, and it needs to have teeth.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

there is absolutely no excuse for this

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago (1 children)

corporations are a problem we need to solve as a society.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Orrrr and hear me out. We just pass a national right to repair law.

There, problem fixed and we don’t need to burn anything!

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

That will fix Metas influence on foreign governments, certainly!

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

Uhhh we are addressing right to repair not corporate influence on the state.

Pick the right tools for the job not everything needs a hammer.

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

Why not fix the root of your problem instead of the symptoms tho?

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

Who said its the root of the problem?

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

Anyone who is not one of the frogs in the pot.

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

Careful, you might cut yourself with that edge.

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

Better than beating your head in with a brick and calling others edgy.

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

I’m disappointed, you were doing so well.

Ohh well I’m going to go back to sitting in my house, enjoying my AC, while playing on my phone and eating a tasty breakfast burrito all of which were made by evil corporations.

If that pisses you off maybe you could move to somewhere that fits with your philosophy. Venezuela and Cuba would probably be a good fit for you. 👍

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

Good, you deserve all those amenities. Guess I'm a bad person for saying everyone deserves them ¯\(ツ)

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

Killing corporations won’t get everyone those amenities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

aaaww but I already got my gas can and matches out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Reasonable people always ruin everyone's fun.

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

Damn reasonable people pushing back the Nuclear Apocalypse, the Global Heating Armageddon, return to Dark Ages and all such major fun events/s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I always forget that Lemmy is about everyone being very serious all the time.

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

Reasonable people agree that corporations are not good and need to be gone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

But apparently some reasonable people can't take a joke.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Line must go 🆙

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