This isn’t a prosthetic that was remotely disabled, this is failing hardware that doesn’t have support from the original company which is in the process of going bankrupt.

I get where you’re coming from, and agree. Prosthesis and health devices should absolutely not be remotely controllable by a company. But you can’t really help a company shutting down.

And I highly doubt there are any open source implants which help sure blindness that are ready for prime time.

I'm daily driving Linux. And, frankly, for my eye implant, I'll probably buy from apple.

I mean, no, I will buy something else, jailbreak foss it, will have to patch it while being blind from an update, and proudly tell everyone no friggin government will be able to backdoor my eye. But oh boy I'll wish I bought one from apple, cuz those guys never go blind from updates.