Welcome to the home of Chrs56k

This server is currently a work in progress, but here is my self hosted video blog. Most of it is from videos I've posted elsewhere online, but over time, I'll be refining what goes here.

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Playlists

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We got hacked and it's Chris's fault

8 November 2026

Bramwells brown sauce, first impressions review

4 July 2026

My latest project, Aggreblop, which combines RSS feeds

10 June 2026

Taking a look at Esoteric Ebb

22 April 2026

Tea, transport, and a life update

4 April 2026

Freebooters quiz 2025 special Part 2 - Wavelength

30 December 2025

Freebooters quiz 2025 special Part 1 - Wits Wagers

29 December 2025

Happy 10th Birthday PeerTube!

30 October 2025

My Newsboat + Lynx browser setup

14 October 2025

Chris learns Vim

18 August 2025

IceWM - on Debian Linux - desktop tour

31 July 2025

PeerTube's plans for 2025

10 April 2025

Web browsers ranked from best to worst

13 March 2025

Freebooters Christmas Special Arguments and banter with friends of the show - Freebooters

23 December 2024

Morrowind multiplayer with Chris and Drew

16 December 2024

Linux DE tier list

22 November 2024

I can't believe Hamish did this NeverForget - We Were Here Too

8 November 2024

Split screen Left 4 Dead 2 with HamishTPB, Dani, and Drew (Uoou)

31 October 2024

Best and worst Linux distros in a tier list - Freebooters

24 October 2024

Get well soon Drew, taking the Bullet GT for a ride in Flatout 2

12 October 2024

Panic and fail with Left 4 Dead 2

6 July 2024

A honking good time at the carnival of chaos in Left 4 Dead 2

6 July 2024

Playing Moonring for the first time with Drew

28 June 2024

Thoughts on Star Wars： Acolyte

14 June 2024

Descent 3 goes open source, a quick look [motion sickness warning]

12 June 2024

A silly idea about UK election debates

5 June 2024

Bastard Chris deploys his flying death machines on Hamish and Lucy in Battle for Wesnoth

16 April 2024

Fallout (TV series), episode one, first impressions

11 April 2024

A quick look at Vampire Survivors - with added bible bashing

27 March 2024

I argue about open source with an open source AI

18 March 2024

Food, fighting, and funny TV shows - Battle for Wesnoth with HamishTPB

14 March 2024

The enshitification of YouTube continues

13 March 2024

FOSS instant messengers and shooting Nazis in Wolfenstein 3D (for DOS)

8 March 2024

Welcome to Ready Fedi Go, 20 years of OpenTTD and the enshitification of everything

7 March 2024

Multiplayer Morrowind with Drew (highlights)

23 May 2023

Goodbye Google Stadia - a very messy murder

16 January 2023

Chris's Lego succulents

16 January 2023

Vegan Kit Kat first impressions review

29 July 2022

Plant-based Babybel, first impressions food review

15 May 2022

Linux Mint should ditch Ubuntu

6 April 2022

Comic Mono font review

31 May 2021

What the gemini protocol means to me

12 February 2021

Kristall, Amfora and Bollux - a look at three gemini browsers

3 February 2021

Matrix vs XMPP (vs IRC) - open source tech thoughts

9 November 2020

Aseprite pixel art with HexDSL

16 June 2020

Spiderqueen vs bearger

10 May 2020

Taking out the Moose⧸Goose - Don't Starve Together

28 April 2020

Taking out the deerclops

28 April 2020

Spiders vs moose⧸goose round 2

28 April 2020

Spiders vs moose⧸goose round 1

28 April 2020

Dashes, dots, or underscores for filenames？

18 April 2020

Delta Chat - what if DMs but with email？

2 February 2020

Hex finds the scrolls of Icarian Flight - Morrowind multiplayer

14 November 2019

Chris's first goal in Rocket League (with Drew, Matt & Steve)

11 October 2019

The heart of open-source gaming

5 October 2019

The beauty of a simple web

17 April 2019

Twitch livestream highlights

3 April 2019

Thoughts on PeerTube as a competitor to YouTube

23 March 2019

A tour of Castle Village

20 March 2019

Coding a RSS feed - and a rant about the modern web

18 March 2019

A look at the Basilisk web browser - Battle of the browsers

4 March 2019

A look at the Pale Moon web browser - Battle of the browsers

18 February 2019

Thoughts on social media

13 February 2019

Microsoft Edge adopts Google Chrome's Blink web engine

7 December 2018

Heather and Chris defeat the deerclops

6 December 2018

Taking audio from video using ffmpeg

27 November 2018

Is social media broken by design？

23 November 2018

Test your Linux distro knowledge

25 October 2018

Thoughts on SimpleScreenRecorder

23 October 2018

Nokia 3310 (old vs new)

18 October 2018

Thoughts on the YouTube algorithm

1 October 2018

What is PeerTube? (and some more thoughts on Steam Play)

22 August 2018

Valve's new Steam Play and testing a Windows game on Linux with it

22 August 2018

Two better alternatives to Pastebin

5 August 2018

Piskel, a free and open-source pixel art designer - App pick

2 August 2018

My Neocities website tour

26 May 2018

Matrix, MX Linux and GNUCash on Linux

12 April 2018

Searx.me - an open source, privacy respecting alternative to Google Search

13 February 2018

Thoughts on using tabs vs spaces for code indentation

9 February 2018

The design philosophy behind my new website

25 January 2018

Neocities is great!

12 January 2018

Etcher - Burn images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily

9 January 2018

Our information diet, RSS and other types of information feeds

21 November 2017

To LTS or not to LTS, different release models for Linux distros and thoughts on changing distros

30 October 2017

Why I believe Linux is the future of gaming

27 October 2017

Waterfox web browser as an alternative to Mozilla Firefox for Linux

26 October 2017

Mastodon.social, a new, open source, federated social network that works with GNU Social

19 April 2017

Thoughts on Ubuntu dropping the Unity desktop in favour of GNOME

7 April 2017

Rambling about Tails OS and specialised GNU⧸Linux distributions

15 March 2017

Thoughts on RSS readers

14 February 2017

Some thoughts on Linux gaming in 2017

17 January 2017

Qupzilla - Battle of the Browsers

15 January 2017

A week of the Gnome desktop

9 January 2017

Redshift is an app that helps reduce eye-strain from your monitor

7 January 2017

Using the Zoom H1 Handy recorder

2 January 2017

Reading your comments on Fedora, Korora, Mint, Signal, the IP Bill

8 December 2016

Thoughts on Signal Private Messenger

2 December 2016

Chroma Key Effects with Kdenlive

1 November 2016

Emily and Chris Talk Linux (and free and open-source software)

10 October 2016

Trying Out Valve's Steam Controller Under Linux (using SC Controller)

7 October 2016

Posteo - email Service Review

2 October 2016

Browsing the Web Without JavaScript

19 June 2016

Epiphany (Web) Web Browser - Battle of the Browsers

15 June 2016

Hannah Montana Linux - Linux review video

17 May 2016

Unboxing a World War Two Civilian Gas Mask - Old Tech

29 April 2016

Fixing My First Computer： A literal 5 star achievement

11 March 2016

Geekbox - An open source TV box

18 January 2016

Windows 93 - Distro Review？

1 January 2016

Blab.im - Cross-platform Livestreaming Without Flash

4 December 2015

Painting with Bob Ross using GIMP

30 October 2015

Recording audio - stereo vs mono

4 January 2015

Be Safer Online With NoScript - App Pick

1 November 2014

What is the definition of a social network and is IRC One？

16 October 2014

How to play Twitch streams through VLC media player

3 September 2014

GParted Live 0.19.0-1 - Linux review video

12 June 2014

Tascam DR-07 MK2 - Recording Sound For My Videos

14 January 2014

Audio Mixers - The Very Basics - Wharfedale Pro EZ-m Mini-mixer 16x2

9 January 2014

Using My Tablet To Control My Desktop PC

19 December 2013

Fraps for Linux - SimpleScreenRecorder

28 November 2013