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.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      522 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        522 days ago

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

  • @mediOchre
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    1822 days ago

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

  • metaStatic
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    1722 days ago

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

    • @LofenyyOP
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      622 days ago

      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.

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    22 days ago

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

    And maybe Organic Maps if the driver needs help navigating.

    • @LofenyyOP
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      422 days ago

      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!

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

      • @[email protected]
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        322 days ago

        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.

    • @LofenyyOP
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      322 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        522 days ago

        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.

  • @[email protected]
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    922 days ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    822 days ago

    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.

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    722 days ago

    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.)

  • @[email protected]
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    522 days ago

    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.