I once had a really old lappy that I decided to run only in frame buffer mode. After I got a working mouse (for copy pasta) and screen (for backgrounding) it was actually fairly pleasant. Browsing the web, particularly. Ads are image / video based so those were automatically blocked and if I really wanted to see an image I could. Most websites have a really bad signal to noise ratio that was automatically filtered for me. I could even watch videos with mplayer frame buffer support. This person’s whole blog was a huge help: https://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/a-quick-look-at-framebuffer-applications/
I once had a really old lappy that I decided to run only in frame buffer mode. After I got a working mouse (for copy pasta) and screen (for backgrounding) it was actually fairly pleasant. Browsing the web, particularly. Ads are image / video based so those were automatically blocked and if I really wanted to see an image I could. Most websites have a really bad signal to noise ratio that was automatically filtered for me. I could even watch videos with mplayer frame buffer support. This person’s whole blog was a huge help: https://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/a-quick-look-at-framebuffer-applications/