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.
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.
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!
Myne is a Gutenberg frontend with ereader included and it’s on F-Droid.
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.
Install Aurora Store and then any free game that you want
A BTD game, probably BTD6 but BTD5 would do
Antistress and alchemy 2
2048
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
OpenTTD
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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.
Bad Piggies would be pretty fun.
A tablet, you say? Seems like a good reason to finally try Unciv.
And maybe Organic Maps if the driver needs help navigating.
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/
Amazing Alex. Also ppsspp with Everybody’s Golf
I’m sure you can still get them going today.
Now I wish I did play these games when I had my chance.
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.
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!
