Very cool!
Impressive. Most impressive.
That is going to need a disable option for me :-S
I had similar thoughts, because I would disable it probably. But that does not change the fact (and my previous comment) that this is impressive.
Env Vars: What would make sense to me is a global variable the project checks and runs standard text or effects based on the global environmental variable. This way we could just set a single env var in the shell and have it automatically set off (or on for specific apps only) without configurations and commandline options for many programs.
The kitty graphics protocol lets you send images to display in the terminal. I had a play around with it trying to make a similar GUI. The big gotcha is text rendering. You can either stick to normal grid aligned monospace, or I think you could maybe use a texture atlas, but it’s not going to be very efficient at all. I haven’t got as far as trying that though.
The videos… while they work are probably uncompressed video which is only going to work well over a very fast network.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
