On: Writing to the Framebuffer (2018)

[thequux]

tee will also write to stdout, which can often mean that you get a bunch of binary gubbish splattered all over your terminal.

I recommend instead using "|sudo dd of=/dev/fb0", or, if you have moreutils installed, "|sudo sponge /dev/fb0"

[rbanffy → thequux]

Shouldn't `| sudo cat > /dev/fb0` work?

[hackmiester → thequux]

But 'sponge' will put it all in RAM, so that's not ideal either. Lots of pitfalls here, wow.