For almost any phone: just turn it off. Every phone I've used requires a passcode after a power cycle
Goopadrew
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Even compared to something like a washed Ethiopian? To be honest I've never tried kopi luwak, I just figured it was overhyped and comparable to other specialty coffee lol
That reminds me of this great place I once went to that was literally just a farm house that was repurposed into a restaurant, in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road and surrounded by farmland. It wasn't cheap but also not outrageous, and the salads were amazing.
I also just remembered this Hungarian restaurant. Can't get any more homey than some ukranian grandma's house
You can get that same experience with coffee for much cheaper, but it does require a little effort. You just need to find a good coffee roaster near you or online where you can get freshly roasted specialty coffee(arabica, not robusta; and from a single farm, not a blend), instead of the stuff at grocery stores that's been sitting for months. It might cost $15-$20 a bag, but that's still less than a dollar per cup! If you want the absolute best coffee, then grinding the beans yourself and using something like an aeropress or pourover brewer is ideal, but you can still get great coffee just by buying locally roasted beans from a nearby shop, letting them grind the beans for you, then brewing with a regular old coffee machine
Honestly, unless you're getting headphones that require a decent amount of power, you should be good with Apple's USB C DAC that they sell for around $8. If you have a limited budget, it's better to put as much towards the actual headphones as possible, you're going to get a lot better sound out of $100 headphones through a $10 DAC than you would with $50 headphones through a $50 DAC
Based on the article, it seems more like the seller conspired with FTX, a company based around cryptocurrency, to make a huge sale far above the "expected auction price". The legitimate complaints about this are that the buyer wasn't disclosed as being FTX, and that both the buyer and seller both stood to gain from the sale, as it gave an illusion of a market where someone could make profit, and not just a scam
If your grades are good and you enjoy your major, could I suggest becoming a tutor/teaching assistant for a class or professor you liked? It would give you a way to interact with people in your major that might even be in your other classes (whether that's other TAs or the students you're teaching), you'd get something for your resume, a professor to use as a job reference, and you should even get paid!
Software support, basically ASUS doesn't have a great track record when it comes to updating phones to the newest versions of Android (although they might be getting better at this). I would only expect 1 or 2 Android version updates if I were buying a zenfone (and probably to get those significantly later than Google and Samsung phones), and it would be a good idea to double check on how long they're committing to security updates for the phone you're eying
I wish there was a better recommendation I could have given! Good luck finding something that works well for you though :)
I think your best bet might still be a pixel (probably a-line), since that would be the path of least resistance for software support and custom rom development/rootability. Another fun option is ASUS with great price/performance and a huge battery (I think it's fairly repairable too?), but it doesn't seem there's a community for custom roms. Here's the main possibilities and downsides as I see them:
Pixel: a little pricey, not great price/performance, not sure on repairability, weird issues with extra sw features apparently getting worse over time
Samsung: forget about custom roms, again not great price/performance at your price range, repairability okay but not good
Fairphone: bad performance, I don't believe there's any water resistance and build quality would be a concern for me, unsure about software support but I'd expect good custom rom community
Sony: not a large user base, so I'd assume there won't be custom roms. I think Sony hasn't committed to the same software support as other big names. I'd be worried about availability of replacement parts for repairs
ASUS zenfone: out of your price range. Bad track record for sw support
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Sorry, I misread your comment, I thought you were asking for a method other than one using lockdown mode. I doubt there's a method using location if it isn't provided by the manufacturer, because an app trying to do that would need permissions to lock the phone.