I did actualy try this but it it seems the os objects to having a tty replaced with anythinh but a properly written tty, or at least it objects to having something that doesnt behave the same way :)
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I take that back, editing the ttys file does work, but you have to set the type to unkown!
Still using term::readkey in conjunction with that seems to herrald the best results.