Neil Crossley was so preoccupied with nerves about his speech at his daughter's wedding that he forgot something crucial when he walked down the aisle - his daughter.

"I was thinking, nothing can go wrong with this part," the 60-year-old from Barnsley told BBC Radio Sheffield back in November.

From a compilation of silly and gentle mini news stories

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15479109

It started with Yochanan (Hebrew) -> Ioannis (Greek) -> Johannes (Mediaeval Latin) -> Jon (Middle English), but now every language seems to have a version, e.g.

• Hans
• Joanna
• Hanna
• Jan
• Ivan/Ivanka
• Vanja
• Jens
• Sean/Shaun/Shawn/Shane
• Joan/Jane/Jean/Janis
• Evan/Ewan
• Jock/Jack
• Ian/Iain/Ianto
• Juan
• Yiannis/Gianna
• Gianni/Giovanni/Vanni/Giovanna
• Jonas
• Ivo/Iva
• Eoin/Owen
• Seonaid/Siubhan

and those are just the ones I've heard used, there are hundreds more!

Seems like the guy in the article was a bit stupid and did the exact things that banks tell you not to like giving personal info and 2FA codes to a cold-caller, but also that Revolut's claims of biometric security didn't stop the scammers nicking all his money.

I've not had much experience with the "challenger banks" but apparently Revolut gets the most complaints by a long way. Anyone got any similar stories?

Disney World is arguing a man cannot sue it over the death of his wife because of terms he signed up to in a free trial of Disney+.

It says Mr Piccolo agreed to these terms of use when he signed up to a one month free trial of its streaming service, Disney+, in 2019.

He called the bad luck "poetic" and suggested they throw Chiara's ring in the river too

We're all well aware of Steam's summer sales, but don't forget that indie storefront itch.io also has a lot of games on sale this week. I've linked to my post in !freegames@feddit.uk which covers 22 games that are currently completely free, but you can browse their games on sale page directly for a huge number of indies (of varying quality!)

I'm a regular user of Linux systems but apart from a couple of test Ubuntu installs many years ago they've always been containers or VMs with no DE which I can throw away when I break them. The Steam Deck showcasing how far Wine/Proton has come combined with Windows being Windows has given me the push; I've made a Mint live USB and it's running beautifully on my desktop. I come to you, the masters, with questions before I hit install:

1. What do you recommend I do about disk partitions? I'm keeping a Windows install for the few things that demand it, does Windows still occasionally destroy Linux partitions? Do I need separate partitions for data and OS? Is it straightforward to add additional distros as new partitions or is that asking for trouble?
2. Is disk encryption straightforward? And is that likely to upset the Windows partition?
3. Is cloud storage sync straightforward? It's my off-site backup solution on Android and Windows (using Cryptomator with Dropbox, Google Drive, etc) but I don't think that many providers have Linux clients. Is something like rclone recommended?
4. Should I just use apt to install software? I know there's some kind of graphical package manager (synaptic?), does that use apt under the covers or is it separate? Is it recommended to install something like Flathub too?
5. Any other pearls of wisdom? How do I keep everything tidy? Any warnings about what not to do? Should I use a particular terminal emulator or Firefox fork?

Alas, the live service, bane of the patient gamer.

I picked up the original Super Mario Maker on WiiU for cheap a few years ago but haven't really played it much (who knew that professional level designers are better at designing fun levels than internet randos?), but apparently its servers are being shut down on 8th April. (This has apparently been announced for a while but I only discovered it from recent articles about players trying to beat every level!)

Does anyone know if there's any way to mass-download levels before the servers go offline? Is it just a case of manually downloading all the top levels one by one? Should I just play it intensely for two weeks assuming it'll then be reduced to the default levels regardless? Are there third-party tools to download levels on Cemu instead?

TL;DR Ramadan starts on 10th March, guessing they don't want all the marshals in Saudi Arabia to be working on their first day of fasting

I'm just glad I checked now and didn't miss qualifying tomorrow!