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.
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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.
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.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon and/or Hoplite. Or maybe an ebook reader.
this is the way
The only games I play on my phone
Amazing Alex. Also ppsspp with Everybody’s Golf
Install Aurora Store and then any free game that you want
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.
A BTD game, probably BTD6 but BTD5 would do
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
Libby works great in my area. Connect it to your library card and grab some ebooks.
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 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.
