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An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The only games I play on my phone

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I needed to read this today thanks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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

And maybe Organic Maps if the driver needs help navigating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Retroarch and tons of roms. Would set me up for quite a while.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It's amazing what your phone can run, even better if you have a Bluetooth controller.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

2048

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

OpenTTD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Second OpenTTD - that'll keep you busy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A small pillow and sleep.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months 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] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A book.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months 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] 8 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Install Aurora Store and then any free game that you want

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Amazing Alex. Also ppsspp with Everybody's Golf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm sure you can still get them going today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Now I wish I did play these games when I had my chance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tachiyomi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Which was discontinued, use Mihon instead, it's an active Tachiyomi fork

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

A BTD game, probably BTD6 but BTD5 would do

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Bad Piggies would be pretty fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Vinyl and a whole ton of mlp music downloaded with yt-dlp

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

With no sound?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The car and the tablet have Bluetooth?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Makes sense, would the parents agree?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Antistress and alchemy 2

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