There’s mpvpaper for videos and swww for virtually everything else.

So you’re volunteering to re-write the entire Unix print stack?

What’s really wild is that people put up with this shit.
For me the straw that broke the camel’s back was finding out that system32 is owned by the installer user and I’d have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make any changes there.
And here people are like: “Sure, show me ads in the OS I bought.” While the apologists go: “You can disable those in the registry.”
I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO!

The moment I have to wrestle the OS for control over my computer it ceases to be useful and becomes a burden.

*conversion

1.1.1970

Exactly what they’re afraid of.

Some noise, desaturation, maybe a few scan lines, add a date and runtime overlay and you’re probably most of the way there.