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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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[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago

Please read this next line as if it had alternating/random caps:

"But capitalism improves efficiency!"

Tap for spoilerI'm on mobile and would rather not deal with my spellcheck "learning" anything today.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

There's this app, I don't use it often but leave it installed for this

https://github.com/MobileFirstLLC/irregular-expressions

The option spongemock LeTs YoU wRiTe LiKe ThIs

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The sooner people stop typing like that, the better.

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