Its going to take the record for tallest and fastest in the UK and its Thorpe’s first coaster since The Swarm in 2012, so its pretty exciting for us here in the UK. Hopefully, it’ll have plenty of airtime, which is something we’re sorely lacking right now! Also, I think much of the general public over here won’t have experienced airtime and inversions with lapbars before so it should be quite novel.
Quite a few people have complained about the short duration, but I’m hoping it’ll be a Nemesis-esque coaster which hits the brakes with lots of speed and leaves you wanting more, rather than petering out and overstaying it’s welcome.
(Skip to 3:48 if the link doesn’t work) For context: “Project Horizon” is the code name for Alton Towers upcoming indoor coaster. Additionally, RMC have teased a new family coaster on Twitter which looks like it could go indoors.
The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s...
And I’m sure Google definitely wouldn’t require your copy of Chrome to be free of any Ad-Blocking or Anti-Tracking extensions to get that “Human” flag /s
DLR trains have never been designed to be un-staffed. The members of staff on board are called PSAs (Passenger Service Agents) or when the system orginally opened: “Train Captains”.
During normal service they’re responsible for operating the doors, ensuring the train is safe to depart each station and assisting passengers. However they’re also required to drive the trains manually within the depots and also in the event of technical problems with the ATO (Automatic Train Operation) system. DLR trains can’t move under ATO without a PSA using the control panel by the doors.
Its also worth remembering that 8 tube lines are also fitted with ATO (Victoria, Jubilee, Central, Northern, District, Circle, Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan) and the drivers on these lines have a similar role during normal service (except they sit in the cab and they’re officially known as “Train Operators”).
If you’re interested in the role of the PSAs, heres an old training video showing how they’d rescue a failed train, things will have changed since 1988 but its still interesting to see.
If its any consolation, there are many entries on your list I wish I could ride! I’ve just started planning a US east coast trip for next year with some friends so we’re hoping to hit King’s Dominion, BGW and SFGAdv (and maybe Nick Universe and Coney Island) but it’s still early days so hopefully we can get a plan together.
I've also noticed that when I leave the front page open in subscribed view I occasionally get a sudden flood of posts appearing, they're always from remote instances and normally older posts (sometimes a few days old). It kinda looks like they're only just being received by our instance at that point, although I'm not familiar enough with Lemmy to say thats 100% whats happening. But if we're not reliably receiving posts then that could explain why the front page content is stale.
RCDB says Jetline was actually manufactured by Zierer, along with the clone of this coaster (BMRX/Knightmare) and Lisebergbanan. But it's definitely using Schwarzkopf's design and the fact that this keeps happening suggests problems with the design. As @MouseAT said, Grona Lund doesn't seem like the type of place to skimp on maintainance.
Hopefully whichever company is currently supporting these old coasters can figure out a solution, the fact that this has happened again is inexcusable.
I can happily see the mander@mander.xyz community but cannot see communities such as biology@mander.xyz or natural_process_art@mander.xyz when using my feddut.uk account. Might be happening for communities on other instances but I haven't noticed if that's the case....
There are were no posts visible, which is probably because no one from our instance has subscribed to it yet. Until someone from feddit.uk subscribes to it, our instance won't be receiving any content from it.
If you (or anyone else from feddit.uk) subscribes, then you'll begin to see new content which is posted in future. If you want to make an existing post/comment visible within our instance, copy the link to the post/comment into the search box on our instance and it should then be retrieved and become visible.
I just tested this out by getting feddit.uk to retrieve this post which is now visible when you check biology@mander.xyz from this instance.
Federation certainly has a learning curve, but its not too bad once you get your head around it. Hope that helps explain it! 🙂
A new version of Jerboa is out, and I was immediately greeted by a popup saying the instance version is on 0.17.4 (?) and Jerboa won't work correctly until it is upgraded to 0.18....
It feels like there ought to be means to personally penalise company directors for stuff like this. I suspect they'd take much greater interest in paying employees properly if their own necks were on the line.
All too often, large businesses treat fines for breaking the rules as just another operating cost.
In September I'm going on holiday to Singapore with friends so we'll be visiting Universal Studios Singapore while we're there. I think its the smallest of the Universal parks, but it'll be my first so I'm really looking forward to it!
Thorpe Park releases official POV for Project Exodus (www.youtube.com)
John Burton (Merlin Creative Lead) teases RMC coming to the UK (youtu.be)
(Skip to 3:48 if the link doesn’t work) For context: “Project Horizon” is the code name for Alton Towers upcoming indoor coaster. Additionally, RMC have teased a new family coaster on Twitter which looks like it could go indoors.
The best way to sort posts (lemmy.world)
John Broome CBE (Founder of Alton Towers Theme Park) has passed away (feddit.uk)
Today it was announced that John Broome has passed away....
Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web (github.com)
The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s...
I hate DLR (lemmy.world)
rant:...
What's your Top 10?
This is still a small enough community that I think we can get away with this discussion without a ton of replies that no one reads ;)...
Feddit UK slow or broken at updating "hot" or "active"
I have an account on feddit.uk and lemmy.world with almost identical subscriptions....
Accident on [Jetline at Gröna Lund] - one dead (www.expressen.se)
Sad news coming out of Stockholm, looks like another classic Schwarzkopf design has derailed....
Issue seeing communities on mander.xyx
I can happily see the mander@mander.xyz community but cannot see communities such as biology@mander.xyz or natural_process_art@mander.xyz when using my feddut.uk account. Might be happening for communities on other instances but I haven't noticed if that's the case....
Upgrading the instance to 0.18
A new version of Jerboa is out, and I was immediately greeted by a popup saying the instance version is on 0.17.4 (?) and Jerboa won't work correctly until it is upgraded to 0.18....
Full list of companies that failed to pay the minimum wage (leftfootforward.org)
The first four are pretty embarrassing.
What's everyone anticipating most this coaster season?
Anyone really looking forward to a specific ride or park that they are planning to go to that they haven't been on/to before?...
Can an AI Build a Roller Coaster? - Rollercoaster David (www.youtube.com)
Thought you guys might find this video interesting. The rest of this channel is great as well, I really like the style of his coaster review videos.