I have an HP Chromebook 11 that I was going to install linux on (iirc you have to open it up and flip a hardware switch to do so) but I ended up keeping Chrome OS on it. Anyway I mention it bc the form-factor is nice, it's very small and light but still usable. Only thing I don't like is the touchpad so I hook up an external mouse whenever possible. You can get those chromebooks for under $100 refurbished too.
First it was just a bunch of goth pen-pals getting together and hiring bands. I guess it was more like a convention?
Then they started having more bands, and doing it twice a year. (including at or near Halloween so other folks started dressing up and joining.) So more like a music festival / party?
Finally it became really commercialized, less of a goth thing and more of a way to boost tourism. As far as I can tell, in recent years the music events have only involved cover bands and DJs -- it's more about the marketplace and the local businesses.
So I imagine they each had their take on the Dracula connection. Currently it looks like they push it pretty hard which makes it kind of like a theme park. Like, apparently there's a plan to make a fake graveyard just for people to take pictures in? The whole thing is a little bit cringe, but it reminds me of something Kurt Cobain said about why they sold Nirvana CDs in Walmart -- sometimes a Walmart is all you've got.
What I like about this video is that it shows not only people dressed up (goths, historical costumers, cosplayers, etc) but also the swarms of photographers surrounding them and the hordes of tourists -- to be fair, it is a tourist town. So it gives you more of a feel of what it's like to be there, for better or for worse. The Whitby Goth Weekend technically refers to a series of concerts, but this video focuses on the people walking around the street one day that weekend.
FUN FACT: Whitby is apparently mentioned in Dracula and recall that there's a Dracula Readthrough going on in !vampires@lemmy.zip. @Zagorath@aussie.zone is posting a section at a time as it occurs on the calendar (because it's an epistolary novel, mostly letters and diary entries, and it all happens in the space of a couple months, see?) Anyway there's a bit of a lull so now's the perfect time to catch up so if you've ever wanted to read Dracula, you can read it here.
kinda reminds me of when they'd sell valueless non-functional hardware on e-bay, but you'd get a Windows OEM CD/license with it. Because they couldn't just sell the CD/license without some kind of hardware.
It really varies by person. I sleep best on a foam matress on a futon on the floor. When I go to a hotel with the ultra-soft bedding it just seems weird.
TIL the term "wardialing" (referring to the technique of automatically dialing numbers) was named after the 80s film WarGames, which showed it at work.
I have an HP Chromebook 11 that I was going to install linux on (iirc you have to open it up and flip a hardware switch to do so) but I ended up keeping Chrome OS on it. Anyway I mention it bc the form-factor is nice, it's very small and light but still usable. Only thing I don't like is the touchpad so I hook up an external mouse whenever possible. You can get those chromebooks for under $100 refurbished too.