#fire tablet

We've been struggling to get our old Fire tablet to work (was a gift years ago, ended up not using it much) for over a week now

For context, it's 5th generation (from 2015), and hadn't been charged/turned on in YEARS (literal) so it's old as fuck but in decent condition

It was so outdated, that it took two days of just updating software before we could even begin to try figuring it out - none of the apps would work, websites wouldn't load, ect

Today, the update that made the software functional again has downloaded

After everything

We were able to find the Fire's version of Coughdrop, download it, and get it to sign in

We can use our tablet as a designated AAC device now

No more worrying about our phone dying and not being able to communicate

We can use our phone for phone things, and still always have a voice

We are so happy

We know nothing about technology, and my partners couldn't figure it out either, so we were starting to lose hope

I remembered I was repeating past mistakes by using a keyboard case with the tablet. It's not a laptop, treating it as such is a bad idea. So I got an amazon branded case so it has a thinner profile and I can use it vertically. Even reading manga again.

Maybe there's a greater lesson about taking things as they come.

This whole on doing a game boy cleanse, only playing game boy, and as of this week, game boy color games, for at least the rest of this week. Which, speaking of... Were any of these games good? Okay fine, tetris and picross. But like... We don't have the game boy to thank for Pokemon. Game boy should be thanking Pokemon. Hell, Pokemon is probably responsible for the GBA.

I'm not going to sit here and claim the fire 7 is god's gift to man. I mean, sure. It's leagues above the stuff I grew up using. But that was 20 years and an able body ago. I would love a cheap, lightweight piece of equiment that could efficiently multi task.

For a while it was my chromebook. But it wasn't the best. It was unreliable for retro gaming. So I took off the guard rails and put linux mint on there. Since then it's been an endless parade of disapointing os and malfunctioning sound card.

The fire 7 isn't as versatile, but it's a reliable workhorse. I guess it's the same thing with my phone. I'd rather have a dirt cheap motoralla than the hand me down samsung s20+ from my wife. Because at least then I'd have a headphone jack.