Where all my Xenoblade fans at?

Here's the trailer for the 2027 GOTY that will be overshadowed by some other games that aren't worthy, just like XC3 was that year.

I kid I kid, but it's going to be great if the XC trilogy is any indication.

I have a pair of B&W PX (first gen) headphones whose batter has finally bit the dust. These headphones are still great, but they now won't hold a charge.

I've been looking at replacing the battery, and it should be doable based on my research. But the problem I'm facing right now is that I cannot for the life of me find a place to buy this battery that lives in the ear cup. The image attached is from a site detailing how to replace it, but the site just says something like "just buy a new battery" with no links or direction on where to find one.

Looking for any of the numbers on the battery in the image have so far not yielded anything helpful to me since web search now sucks balls because of AI.

So my question is: does anyone know of a good site or utility where I might be able to track down a replacement battery? I'd prefer to not use Amazon since fuck them.

Failing that, does anyone know of a good community here to ask about batteries in general?

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Nikola Topic has begun chemotherapy treatment after being diagnosed with testicular cancer, general manager Sam Presti told reporters Thursday.

Presti said doctors are "extremely positive" about the long-term outlook for Topic, the No. 12 pick in the 2024 draft who sat out last season while recovering from a torn ACL.

Topic underwent a procedure in early October at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to get a biopsy. After receiving the results, he asked the Thunder to not publicly reveal his diagnosis until he had started the chemotherapy treatments, Presti said.

My dude can't catch a break.

This question may be rudimentary for a lot of people here, but since Microsoft has decided to stop supporting Windows 10 I have really thought about switching my PC that runs Final Fantasy 14 to a Linux box. So, the question is: Is anyone here playing this game on Linux, and how well does it run?

I have a relatively old PC, old enough so that I can’t upgrade it to Windows 11, but it plays Final Fantasy 14 just fine. So I assume on Linux the game will run OK. However, I worry that if there’s an extra layer with wine or some other emulation that it may run a little more sluggish.

Is Bazzite the way to go?

EDIT after installation (Feb 2026):

So this last week I finally pulled the plunge and installed linux on both my laptop and desktop. There was one too many "hey you should use one drive" full page pop-ups as I turned on my pc that sent me into a rage.

Anyway, I ended up just going with Mint in the end. It was simple, looks good. "Feels" solid.

I don't have XIV via steam, so I just used XIVLauncher straight up, and that has worked! HOWEVER, there were, of course, a couple of hiccups, and I'll note them here in case someone is curious about switching like I was:

• I initially installed XIVLauncher via the built-in software management tool which uses flatpak. And while the game did run, on my laptop it simply wouldn't see my gpu (Nvidia). I tried several things, but the solution turned out to be installing XIVLauncher as an appImage instead. That fixed this issue.
• The second big thing is the game wouldn't see my Dualsense controller. Mint saw it just fine. But FFXIV wouldn't. The game would see Switch and Xbox controllers just fine, but no Playstation controllers (Dualsense or PS4). I actually don't exactly know the solution here, BUT the problem went away when I installed Steam onto the system. My guess is just by doing this (and testing the controller with a steam game) installed maybe a better driver for the Dualsense. Totally not sure, but after installing Steam I had no more issues with FFXIV.

And so at this point the game runs great on Linux! I'm getting a locked 60fps (again, my pc is now 10 years old running a 1070 and because of the current prices I'm probably just going to use it until I die).

So thanks everyone for your input!

From the video description:

The legend continues with Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender! It's been 20 years since Aang was freed from the iceberg and it's time to relive the journey to master the elements. Start your bending adventure and meet multiple incarnations of your favorite characters in special treatments and iconic moments.

Preorder Now – http://mtg.social/atla 

Play Early at Your Local Game Store – Nov 14

In Stores Everywhere – Nov 21

Edit: Looks like they have a video up now discussing some of the cards and new ideas in this set:

https://youtu.be/HqzQhfiTeN0

As someone completely new to Magic but very well versed in Final Fantasy, they finally got me into the game with these sets.

My friend was doing an Edge of Eternities prerelease last night, and the shop had gotten a big restock of the Cloud commanders. So now I have all of these that piqued my interest…AND one EoE commander deck because they had some for sale.

So FF was my gateway drug into this game, and now I have some “normal” Magic cards.

But I have to stop because I also have to eat. I’m sure no one here has ever had that problem.

This thing actually looks sick as hell.

NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has agreed to a four-year, $285 million super maximum contract extension with the champion Oklahoma City Thunder through the 2030-31 season, sources told ESPN on Tuesday.

This is now the richest annual salary for a player in league history.

He has now signed two contract extensions as a member of the Thunder, cementing both sides' partnership and trust since he arrived in Oklahoma City in 2019.

So the other day I went ahead and installed the current beta on my M1 iPad Pro to try out. I’m currently typed this in Arctic on the iPad right now in a window that doesn’t try to snap to pre-determined lanes! Crazy!

I have generally been using it with Universal Control from my Mac to get the mouse and keyboard over, and that - so far - works pretty well.

But I wanted to open the floor up to see if anyone else has tried it and what their opinions are. Or, if you haven’t and have a question about the windowing stuff, I or others might be able to field them.

For me, other than what I’ll chalk up to beta bugs mostly, I do think this has legs. Obviously not the full macOS everyone has been clamoring for, but it’s certainly usable and more or less works like you assume it works. Hopefully down the line Apple will figure out how to extend the background tasks to include stuff like running local servers/Node and whatnot for project development. But we’ll see.

There is some wonkiness when putting a window to the top of the screen, as it then has to do some battling with the clock/battery area and the new menu bar dropdown. At that point you have to click to get to the stop lights where otherwise you can just hover over them.

So anyway, how has the beta been treating you? Or if you have questions an interaction or whatever, we can all help answer them.

Edit: I’m editing this to share an article from MacStories interviewing Craig Federighi about the iPad:

https://www.macstories.net/stories/interview-craig-federighi-opens-up-about-ipados-its-multitasking-journey-and-the-ipads-essence/

Before I jump down a big rabbit hole to try and figure out how to make a custom feed, I thought I may ask some folks here a question I've had on my mind.

I like the Discover feed generally. I like the idea - I can find some posts outside of my own followers. That's nice.

But my issue is that it often throws in posts from 20 hours+ ago. Things move too quickly, and posts that old are...too old. I wish it was at max something around 3-4 hours old.

So therein lies my question: does anyone know of a feed that's basically just the Discover feed but with better time constraints?

Thanks!

This is a pretty great, long form post about the structure of Bluesky, and how it's largely kinda pretending to be decentralized at the moment. I'm not trying to make a dig at it. I've enjoyed the platform myself for a while, but it's good to learn more about how it actually works.

This article was shared on Mastodon via its author here.

This is largely a silly post, but I'm curious if anyone has any fun conspiracy theories. Like why does Tataru need that knife on her belt? Is it because she's got some NEFARIOUS dealings going on to get all that money?

More so, I just wanted to see if anyone else believes that the Random Mount button isn't fully "random." I swear I see the same handful of mounts summoned more than others. If I see the Manacutter or Yol summoned ONE MORE TIME, I swear...

It’s now been about a month (somehow) since Dawntrail launched, so I assume most of us have finished the MSQ, and I’m curious about your thoughts!

For me, I actually really enjoyed not being the center of attention the whole time. It was a nice palette cleanser from the last ten years. It was fun to tag along see this whole new continent. Of course, things do end up getting more serious than that, and I was impressed they were able to get me to care about all these new people so quickly.

The new dungeons and group content all felt good. I liked that none of it seemed to be pushovers, and myself and my friends died several times figuring out the various boss battles — which is a good thing!

I just finished the story last night so I’m now at the point where there are some new quests which I assume will open up some new content. So I have no opinion there yet.

But what about you all?

I’m about halfway through the story at this point, but I’ve really been enjoying these new starting zones.

Something that I never really did with the previous expansions is try and do a lot of side quests as I go. It’s been fun to learn more about these new characters and their cultures.

Inject it into my veins.

NOOOO MY DARLING BOY

Four years removed from being a first-round draft pick, Aleksej Pokuševski's tenure with the Oklahoma City Thunder has come to an end.

The Thunder announced on Friday they have waived the 22-year-old forward.

Pokuševski was originally selected with the 17th overall pick in the 2020 draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, who traded his rights to Oklahoma City in a three-team deal that also involved the New York Knicks. He was the youngest player in that draft class The trade has turned out to be very notable for all three teams involved. Minnesota acquired the draft rights to Jaden McDaniels, while the Knicks got the rights to Immanuel Quickley.

I just started using this app today after wading through bug after bug with Voyager. Like many, Apollo was my go-to app for years and years, so it’s natural to gravitate to the one that looks exactly like it.

However, I consume this type of content mostly on my iPad, and often I’m using Stage Manager with an external KB and trackpad. Voyager in this mode barely works, so I’m just making a post here to say thanks for making this app feel great in this mode. 😎