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volfonibros··on Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
Because it's there. Less famous games can have nostalgic value for people, and many are good. I really like Snowboard Kids myself so I got a kick out of it. But also, Ocarina of Time has pretty famously been done and subsequently ported everywhere a couple of years ago.
volfonibros··on Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B
I went back to the (french) articles making that claim in headlines and it turns out to be false, thanks.

He lost his appeal in his case against the city authority to search the landfill, so he can't ever search for it. It's a bit buried in his feed in between the announcements about tokenizing part of these legally inaccessible coins.

volfonibros··on Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B
For anyone else who's been vaguely following the story as it popped up every few years, the latest news came out a few days ago : he finally gave up.
volfonibros··on Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty
The first four are available on GOG, DRM-free.
volfonibros··on Playstation Vita Architecture (Part 1)
The real Vita can't play every PS2 game, or any GC game. Different device. And the Steam Deck is vastly different in pocketability, yes.
volfonibros··on A $1k Wheelchair
From their front page : "For more than three decades, New Mobility has published groundbreaking content for active wheelchair users."

Fair from them to assume the (average) reader is familiar with the subject.

volfonibros··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
A bit late but I switched to that phone six months ago and it's been positive for me. Love the size.
volfonibros··on America's commute to work is getting longer and longer
I don't know where they get that 50/Ha figure. Paris is more dense than Seoul, with just over 200 people per Ha, or ~20k/km². Figure would actually have been higher at the 1999 date of the cited source, too. The city is (slowly) losing people.