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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?

mox ,

A tablet, you say? Seems like a good reason to finally try Unciv.

And maybe Organic Maps if the driver needs help navigating.

brenticus ,

Unciv works perfectly fine on a phone if you feel like risking significant amounts of your time (:

mox ,

I found it uncomfortable on my phone's small screen.

leverlo ,

A much more mobile-friendly 4X game is Polytopia. Doesn't look like it's on F-Droid but the apk is available:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/midjiwan-ab/the-battle-of-polytopia/

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.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Bad Piggies would be pretty fun.

BearOfaTime ,

Guess someone's gonna be countin' telephone poles along the way!

(Like I did when I forgot to bring a book or a travel game.)

Yantantethera ,

Teach your kids to count motorbikes and cyclists and they learn to see them when they're adult drivers.

BearOfaTime ,

Ooh, I like it! Especially as a fellow two-wheeler!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

notgold ,
@notgold@aussie.zone avatar

Antistress and alchemy 2

KairuByte ,
@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

A book.

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

What you really mean is a fully free software e-book reader with copies of fantastic public domain works as provided by Project Gutenberg?? I sincerely agree!

Y'know, I'd sure be willing to reread The Great Gatsby!

KairuByte ,
@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Sure. Or a bunch of recent bangers Linux isos as epubs and use them in whatever reader you want. I prefer iBook as an Apple user, but that doesn’t fit the scenario presented.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Libby works great in my area. Connect it to your library card and grab some ebooks.

windie ,

Myne is a Gutenberg frontend with ereader included and it's on F-Droid.

Traister101 ,

A BTD game, probably BTD6 but BTD5 would do

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