It’s beautiful! I actually adjusted my python code to your method and just for optimization checked if the current two pixel colors match the previous two and if so leave out the color info. Much more fidelity in the images now!

Thanks for the suggestion, gonna look into this. I didn’t want to use real images even though kitty supports them because I like the retro look and wanted it terminal agnostic for when I use termux on my phone.

/etc/update-motd.d/01-random-art don’t forget to chmod +x it and put ‘art’ in /usr/share/motd-art. MOTDs are limited to 80 characters wide, so don’t over do it. I made image_to_ansi.py to resize and convert the images.

I considered using kitty’s built-in ssh kitten to display real images, but I ended up liking the retro look more.

/etc/motd no, but it runs the scripts in /etc/update-motd.d/

*Ctrl+tab for those that don’t know.

It’s an April Fools Day post about Nvidia’s numbering scheme, there was a 6800 back in 2004: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-6800.c1775

Why not sudo -s?

People who work on the equipment claiming it’s not accurate in-game and posting (classified) proof.

My son. It’s tanks. He’s 12 and can go on for hours about them, rattling off their armor thickness (in mm), caliber of their guns, horsepower of their engines, declination and traverse speeds of their turrets, etc. I took him to a tank museum one time, and no shit a quarter mile from the museum he sees the tank out front and he goes: “That’s a Sherman M4A4!!” Ten minutes later we’re parked and walking up to the museum, I look at the tiny info placard, M4A4, think to myself: “What the fuck.”