Open source fitmware or nothing.

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.

Jockey literally lost his exoskeleton due to end of life.

Yeah, if everyone started turning into a cyborg, walking becomimg a subscription-based service would be just a question of time.

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.

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

Yeah that sounds cool af

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.

I hate it, but it's perfect.

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" !<

Fuck, 2020 would have been so much more bearable if our food had been delivered by The Deliverator. You know, a highly qualified professional.

...Instead, in this region at least, the app economy bros employed a bunch of befuddled immigrants and also screwed them over contract-wise. So it's the sad kind of cyberpunk, not the funny kind of cyberpunk

Begins to cry.

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Look, us YIMBYs are trying our best, okay?

That real "we have cyberpunk at home" aesthetic

Nah, they'd make it like repo.

Sweetie, we're all being punks right now using pirate reddit. What's more punk than undermining oligarch control of social platforms?

That doesn't sound very dystopian