Emerald Park might not be the biggest theme park in Europe, but for coaster fans it’s quietly becoming a must-visit. I did it as a day trip from the UK: flying out of Stansted early morning, landing in Dublin, and flying home that evening. From the airport, a taxi to the park cost around €60 […]
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8 Days, 7 theme parks, this is the ultimate northern European Theme park tour. Here are the parks we’re going to be visiting. Hotels on tour. Coaster Breaks Review (Aug 2023 ) Coaster Breaks | Theme Park Tours This is the ultimate trip for coaster enthusiast, especially if you have only experienced the usual parks
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The Xbox Series X and the Playstation 5 are the latest and most powerful game consoles on the market, but which one is better for you? In this blog post, we will compare the two consoles in terms of specs, games, features, and price to help you make an informed decision. Specs The Xbox Series
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Theme parks are fun places to visit, but they can also be overwhelming and exhausting if you don’t plan ahead. Here are some tips to help you make the most of your day at a theme park. 1. Look for Discounts on Tickets Don’t pay full price for your theme park tickets if you can
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Intro Monday’s trip to Alton Towers started sub-optimally, leaving Manchester at 8am we arrived at approximate 9.50am. After parking, we joined the relatively short queue (just outside the station) for the monorail to the main entrance. Monorail operations were incredibly slow, we finally entered the park at 10.40am. The park was only open from 10am
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Intro We arrived for park opening, on an overcast day with predicted rain for the afternoon. Pre-purchasing tickets, and installed app on phone, allowed us to walk straight in scanning the QR code on our app on the turnstiles at the entrance before the official ride opening time 10am, not sure when they started letting
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Below is a guide on how to setup POP_OS! to develop spectrum next games using VSCode as the dev environment and #CSpect emulator. I’ve written this guide for my own personal use as there are several steps to getting the setup working. The Objective Setup Visual Studio code on Linux, so we can write spectrum
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My machine has at least 3 different sound outputs; Pop!_OS detects all of them but defaults to the wrong one. Changing it in the settings works, but as soon as I reboot or restart it will switch back to the “wrong one”. So with that in mind here is how to force/set the correct sound
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The latest version of Satisfactory came out today and I thought I’d launch it; the trouble is the game seemed to be resolution locked at 4k. I couldn’t change the resolution there were NO options within the game (running it via Linux). No bother, I thought it’s an Unreal 4 engine, I’ll just go change
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One new feature I’ve “discovered” using Pop!_OS is auto tiling, and it’s a game-changer. It’s a feature that once you have started using it you will wonder why isn’t it part of windows? Let me explain what it does. Auto tiling resizes windows on your screen when you launch additional applications. So lets say you
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