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An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install??

You're twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You'll be leaving for Grandma's in about a half hour, and she's lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is no headphone jack. Google Play complains that the device isn't certified or whatever, but that isn't going to stop you from downloading apps from third party websites using the family computer. Plus, you have one great advantage: F-droid is installed and ready to rock.

You must hurry, because you wont have an internet connection once you hit the road. Quick, what apps do you install? You have 128GiB's at your disposal.

kaboom36 ,
@kaboom36@ani.social avatar

Vinyl and a whole ton of mlp music downloaded with yt-dlp

hash0772 ,

With no sound?

ordellrb ,

The car and the tablet have Bluetooth?

hash0772 ,

Makes sense, would the parents agree?

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Bad Piggies would be pretty fun.

Stubb ,

Retroarch and tons of roms. Would set me up for quite a while.

BluesF ,

It's amazing what your phone can run, even better if you have a Bluetooth controller.

Vitaly ,
@Vitaly@feddit.uk avatar

Install Aurora Store and then any free game that you want

lemmyvore ,

Simon Tatham's Puzzles

40 different puzzle games. You won't like all of them but you'll like plenty and they're all super addictive so even one of them will keep you busy for a few days.

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

Fdroid

Find any offline game that works on my tablet, install as many as you can before you leave. Spend 3 hours cycling through random half good games until you find an awesome one as you arrive, play that on the way home.

notgold ,
@notgold@aussie.zone avatar

Antistress and alchemy 2

Traister101 ,

A BTD game, probably BTD6 but BTD5 would do

istoff ,

Amazing Alex.
Also ppsspp with Everybody's Golf

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Now I wish I did play these games when I had my chance.

istoff ,

I'm sure you can still get them going today.

mediOchre ,

Shattered Pixel Dungeon and/or Hoplite. Or maybe an ebook reader.

Grass ,

this is the way

bighatchester ,

The only games I play on my phone

nintendiator ,

only half an hour

no information on the internet connection quality

Minetest I guess. Can't trust that I can get Retroarch plus the cores and games I want on time, and it's not worth the hassle for only 3 hrs drive.

metaStatic ,

Doesn't matter, if I'm 12 then it will always be the wrong thing.

Lofenyy OP ,
@Lofenyy@sh.itjust.works avatar

Awh, self esteem is important little man, don't beat yourself up!

All or nothing thinking, also known as “Black-and-White Thinking,” is a common cognitive distortion that manifests as an inability or unwillingness to see the shades of gray, or the more complex picture. In other words, you see things in terms of extremes – something is either fantastic or awful, you believe you are either perfect or a total failure.

Amanduh ,

I needed to read this today thanks.

terminhell ,

A small pillow and sleep.

Lofenyy OP ,
@Lofenyy@sh.itjust.works avatar

This is the truest and most correct answer, but it comes with a huge drawback!

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/96f49aa2-3f05-4f47-9a4a-93786af8d81f.png

terminhell ,

Lol, I've not seen that pic in forever.

But for real, even kids need sleep (actually more than adults due to still developing). Road trips for me when I was young was either: Cassette Walkman, listen to parents radio or look out the window. Sometimes having nothing got boring (especially driving through Texas), but I think it helped my imagination and self reflection time.

CaptainBasculin ,

Lithium apk and Light Novel epubs.

If I want to play games downloading Retroarch + SNES cores + a good story based game like Chrono Trigger or Earthbound could do the trick, however I like reading on a bigger screen more, and I really dislike playing a game on a big touchscreen.

MentalEdge ,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Tachiyomi

NikkiNikkiNikki ,
@NikkiNikkiNikki@kbin.social avatar

Which was discontinued, use Mihon instead, it's an active Tachiyomi fork

Lofenyy OP ,
@Lofenyy@sh.itjust.works avatar

@MentalEdge Honestly, that's a pretty sweet idea!

Traister101 ,

Still works. Just cause it's not being developed anymore doesn't mean it stopped working. Mind you I am using something based of Mihon nowadays, TachiyomiSY

NikkiNikkiNikki ,
@NikkiNikkiNikki@kbin.social avatar

Yeah I only found out recently because I had thought that it'd been an oddly long amount of time since the last update. Went to check for updates and the button was gone, so I flew over to the github page and saw the announcement lol

Traister101 ,

I'd recently joined their Discord before it all went down. Like it happened within a month or so :/

I kept using YouTube Vanced up till I started getting video ads which took about 2 years iirc. ReVanced was eaiser than I expected to setup, thought it'd be a hassle which is why I put it off for so long.

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