Yeah, I wish modern smartphone companies weren't so scared of physical buttons. I wish there was a modern version of the Xperia Play or at least some phones with a physical keyboard. You would think companies like Asus or Razor putting out gaming phones would have actual integrated controllers.
I echo your frustrations with finding a simple dashcam without any reliance on some sketchy phone app. The best one I've found is the Viofo A119. It's Chinese, but it's a good little device and relatively inexpensive at $100 USD, sometimes cheaper on sales. No reliance on a phone app, has parking modes, crash detection modes, good sensor, low profile wedge shape. Before I used to like the Yi cameras but the Viofo is much better.
I fucking HATE voice recognition systems. Why do I have to talk to a machine to send a text, search for something or ask it the weather? Half the time I have to yell or enunciate for it to understand my command. Ditto for those that use it as well.
MP3 players are much the same. So many are cheap Chinese shit, with shit features and nothing helping it.
I gotta give them credit for DJI though. They basically changed the RC drone hobby by creating turnkey products someone with little experience flying can use successfully.
I hate when they piss me off enough that I get angry enough that it has an even harder time figuring out what I'm saying.
Chinese knockoffs of Apple cables are actually better than actual Apple shit, which is almost programmed to fall apart in less than a year.
You really have do some sleuthing now to find a decent IP camera with a web server. Reolink is on my blacklist for those kinds of schenanigans. Amcrest is what I currently prefer though there are some models that have mobile app only setup and access.
For viewing, you can usually find an RTSP stream for the camera. Create a static HTTP page with links for each camera's oddball RTSP URL, and then you can just click and view each camera in VLC. Of course if you need to modify the configuration of the cameras, or do PTZ, that's another story.
That's all easy when you have the web server to configure those settings for the IP camera. Some cameras don't have that and instead use a mobile app to access those settings to begin with. It's terrible for usability.
That's for all documents. People used to use it a lot to upload court documents. It is however currently the worst document hosting site on the Internet.
I have exactly one of these. Paid less than $100 for it and it has some laughable Chinglish in its mongoloid Android OS. I wouldn't have even done this but the used car it's in came with a horrible early head unit from Pioneer and finally the nearly nonresponsive touchscreen literally shattered.
