The Freebooters Podcast

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Freebooters is where Chris and Drew talks nonsense and usually something happens with Linux.

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Society

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freebooters.uk

Latest episode

Jul 4, 2026

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Episodes

Bramwells brown sauce, first impressions review 04.07.2026

I take a look at what all the hype is around Aldi's Bramwells brown sauce.

Drew's slightly less awful video game takes 29.06.2026

Drew's full ratings list: https://friendo.monster/ratgame.html Chris's list: https://chriswere.wales/movies

'You can't encapsulate this rambling fucking nonsense with a description' 30.05.2026

We chat a about our movie review systems, Star Wars, Mel Brookes, UK politics, and BASH scripting.

Chris's new system for rating films is crap, but Esoteric Ebb is a really good game 10.05.2026

Chris proposed a 'banded' tier system for rating films, before chatting about Esoteric Ebb and how ours games played out.

Drew's terrible movie takes (the stream that never started) 01.05.2026

As we set up for a game that never happened, Chris, Drew, and later Nado, talk a little about tech, but then descend into Chris taking a look at Drew's ...interesting... movie and TV opinions. Drew's terrible movie takes https://friendo.monster/rat.html John Hinckley's music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Lr5zMgE08

Freebooters, food and drink edition, with Wing 19.04.2026

Chris and Drew are joined by friend of the show Wing for a chat about food, drink, and computers.

Thoughts on leaving YouTube, and moving away from big tech 13.04.2026

Chris and Drew chat about the possibility of leaving this channel behind.

Does everything we do need to be recorded? 30.03.2026

We recorded this whilst we wait for Drew to download Divinity: Original Sin. Artists Who Paint With Their Feet Have Unique Brain Patterns https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/artists-who-paint-with-their-feet-have-unique-brain-patterns-180974064/ Autumn Rhythm, Jackson Pollock, 1950 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488978

Bus driving, bash scripting, and monster talk 20.03.2026

Chris and Drew catch up on all the things that have happened since the last Freebooters.

Getting busy with bash, FOSS sound formats, and why YouTube has outgrown us 06.12.2025

Chris shares the bash projects he's been working on, we talk about MP3 vs other FOSS audio formats, and we talk about why YouTube isn't the best place for smaller creators any more.

Our new self-hosting podcast site, our latest adventures with bash scripting, and Chris gets caught using AI 11.11.2025

In this episode, Chris and Drew share their latest exploits with bash scripting, talk about KeePassXC allowing AI assisted contributions, and the chaps show off the new self-hosted website.

Grifted Reform voters, ethics, and Divinity Original Sin 31.10.2025

Clip from a recent livestream.

Evil deeds vs evil people 25.10.2025

Chris and Drew get side-tracked by chat, with a discussion of veganism and morality.

Setting up i3, Chris's new life with Vim, and can you really sell multi-pack cans separately? 17.10.2025
i3 is great, the Online Safety Act is a disaster 07.08.2025

Chris shares his journey playing around with the i3 window manager, and the Freebooters share their disdain for the authoritarian Online Safety Act.

i3 vs BSPWM 30.07.2025

Chris and Drew talk a little nonsense before going live on Twitch.

Should this game be banned? 05.06.2025
Why copyright is dumb and doesn't make sense 28.05.2025
Our last video to YouTube 09.04.2025

Why this is likely to be the last Freebooters I post to YouTube.

Web browsers ranked from best to worst 13.03.2025

In today's episode of Freebooters, Chris and Drew take a shot at ranking desktop web browsers, realising a horrible truth along the way.

Bluesky sucks & Linux DE tier list 22.11.2024

In today's episode of Freebooters, me, Drew, and Hamish try and work out which Linux desktop environments are the best, and which need a little love.

Best and worst Linux distros in a tier list - Freebooters 24.10.2024

The Freebooters try and work out which Linux distros are the best.

We're so done with Mozilla Firefox 04.10.2024

We chat about Mozilla Firefox's decline into the ad-market and world of AI, why we should ditch timezones, and the weirdest film I (Chris) have seen in a long time, Megalopalis.

Mozilla and Firefox pivot to AI 22.09.2024

Mozilla are shutting down their Mastodon instance, Mozilla.social on 17th December 2024. We discuss what that means for both the Fediverse and Mozilla's track record. In defence of state flags: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-IgG7iou94

New Fediverse logo? and pointless YouTube tat 02.09.2024

⁂ is a typographical character, not an icon that needs to be inserted as an image. Unique-looking, but standardised. This means it’s very easy to copy-paste around! Its design style also automatically adapts to the font used where you insert it. Information from https://symbol.fediverse.info Pixelrama can be found on steam and for free at https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama Space Virgins:...

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