Been playing with the framebuffer yesterday. I was trying to write a C program that displays an image at the cursor position. My proof of concept works. However, I quickly realized that all of this is really "hacky": The Linux VT itself and all other programs fight for the framebuffer and overwrite each other. Even the *cursor* is problematic. And, of course, when you're using a terminal multiplexer and you switch between virtual terminals, the Linux VT wins and all "framebuffer content" (images, videos, ...) is lost.

It would be awesome if all terminals had RGB capabilities. "Display an image at character position (x, y)." I know that there are some prototypes that can do this. XTerm also has its sixel mode. But none of these really took off. :/

As expected, it's not that hard for me to adapt to "TTY only". I discovered GNU screen's "bufferfile" and "readbuf" commands, very handy. Browsing the web with elinks or w3m is totally annoying. What's fun and has a great feeling of nostalgia: Browser gopher space with lynx and reading mailing lists/usenet.