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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.

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.

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/

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!

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

ReadEra and a bunch of pirated ebooks from libgen. Basically the top 10 of the 3 genres I like most.

Bonus is that books are a few 100kb at most, so even with a poor internet speed I can download them in seconds, no problem.

noodlejetski ,

Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

tias ,

2048

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

OpenTTD

youngalfred ,

Second OpenTTD - that'll keep you busy

solrize ,

Silly premise, but you have found a use for Bluetooth headphones I guess.

Anyway I probably install Librera FD for reading epubs, then go on AO3 for suitable materials.

shortwavesurfer ,

Slightly off topic, but I absolutely hate AO3's formatting. I much prefer fanfiction net.

solrize ,

Download as epub then use pandoc to convert to whatever. I'm throwback enough to prefer plain text.

shallots ,

Emulators

Super Tux Cart

Endless Sky

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