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.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
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.
Slightly off topic, but I absolutely hate AO3’s formatting. I much prefer fanfiction net.
Download as epub then use pandoc to convert to whatever. I’m throwback enough to prefer plain text.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon and/or Hoplite. Or maybe an ebook reader.
The only games I play on my phone
this is the way
Doesn’t matter, if I’m 12 then it will always be the wrong thing.
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.
I needed to read this today thanks.
A tablet, you say? Seems like a good reason to finally try Unciv.
And maybe Organic Maps if the driver needs help navigating.
Unciv works perfectly fine on a phone if you feel like risking significant amounts of your time (:
I found it uncomfortable on my phone’s small screen.
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/
Retroarch and tons of roms. Would set me up for quite a while.
It’s amazing what your phone can run, even better if you have a Bluetooth controller.
2048
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
OpenTTD
Second OpenTTD - that’ll keep you busy
Removed by mod
A small pillow and sleep.
This is the truest and most correct answer, but it comes with a huge drawback!
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.
A book.
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!
Libby works great in my area. Connect it to your library card and grab some ebooks.
Sure. Or a bunch of
recent bangersLinux 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.Myne is a Gutenberg frontend with ereader included and it’s on F-Droid.
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.
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.
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.)
Teach your kids to count motorbikes and cyclists and they learn to see them when they’re adult drivers.
Ooh, I like it! Especially as a fellow two-wheeler!
Install Aurora Store and then any free game that you want
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.
