To make things more complicated, I have a brushless drill where the clutch dial does actually adjust the torque of the motor -- torque limiting is done entirely in software, and the ring electrically sets the limit. Once you hit the torque limit, the drill gives a small amount of "force feedback" and cuts power to the motor until the trigger is pulled again.
As a nice additional feature, the drill slow starts and limits the top speed in lower torque settings.
I end up using the drill for small screws (generally on electronics) a lot more than one normally would, as the soft torque limit works fast enough to not strip screws or heads.
It's an old DeWalt from 2013 (!) - DCD995. I'd expect most of the high end brushless drills from the major tool manufactures to have this feature now, though. Check the manual for something like "electronic clutch" if you're looking at a model and not sure.
And that's all presupposing that your use of the drill is in the regime where motor torque matters. If you're consistently driving decking screws into pressure treated lumber, then you don't touch that dial EVER. There's probably a subset of professional power drill users, who have used such a drill every day for years, who don't really touch that setting.
This feels like a "we need to better telegraph the 'sport' mode button next to the gear shift leers, so more 16 year olds know that there's a shortcut to squealing tires and losing traction". Put another way, one of the first things I was taught about using power tools is that if you don't know how to use something, don't touch it. Improving the "interface" on power tools to improve discoverability sort of misses the point here.
There are a few things you can try -- hopefully one of these helps. It's definitely less intuitive than is ideal.
If you're on any of the Home Screens (icons), you can swipe down in the middle of the screen to pull up Search, which you can use to more quickly get to settings rather than trying to scroll though apps to find it. Alternatively, you can put the Settings icon in the "app tray" that's on every Home Screen, rather than whatever the defaults are.
Settings also has a semi-hidden search mode, which you can get to if you swipe down in Settings (scroll all the way to the top).
Finally, "Control Center" has a Hearing control you can add -- I'm not sure if this integrates with the hearing aids, but it might let you have a much faster way to get to the specific settings if that's compatible.
This is slowly changing, at least with some of the high-end consumer/prosumer Sony cameras. I'd like to see some of the other features in your list added, but Sony's past slowness to add features doesn't inspire much hope that they will be added any time soon.
All of the recent (4+ years) cameras have a "share to mobile" feature, where the camera acts as an AP, and your phone connects to pull photos from it. You can either pick the photos to transfer on the camera or on the phone, and it works pretty well for posting to social media, or instantly sharing.
I've run the RX100M3/M5 and a7iii off of USB power forever (a full day's worth of being a webcam via HDMI capture). You can get a battery eliminator for the older a7 models -- while it does require additional hardware and hassle, they do work, and can run off of USB.
The a7iii _finally_ supports some level of geotagging by using the GPS in your phone, and using a BLE connection to get location. It's not as good as a built in GPS, but it's better than recording a track log and syncing later.
There's a lot of functionality, but all of it is clunky as hell. Connecting to the camera is a PITA, the apps on the camera (at least my a6300) are slow as molasses.
I updated the -- again, full featured, but clunky -- remote app earlier and had to enter my account information using the camera 4-way stick, one letter at a time, as if it's 1995.
Edit -- forgot the best part: during the update, the camera locked up displaying "Updating, do not turn off". Lovely. (I turned it off -- removed the battery --, it still works.)
EXACTLY. Many cameras have had PITA wifi sharing modes for over 10 years now, even eyefi existed for quite a while. It's just clunky as hell, slow and annoying that you might as well not use it. They're stuck in some stagnation loop.
> All of the recent (4+ years) cameras have a "share to mobile" feature, where the camera acts as an AP, and your phone connects to pull photos from it. You can either pick the photos to transfer on the camera or on the phone, and it works pretty well for posting to social media, or instantly sharing.
In the case of Nikon, the proprietary app for doing this was quite terrible, across all of their cameras that I tried it with. They released a firmware that opened up things up in the past year, though; better late than never.
There have been brute-forced reverse-engineered alternative solutions but they have always been a pain to set up, use and maintain.
I suspect the other manufacturers' apps wouldn't be much better.
You can install OS X / "Core" updates (but not updates for apps that you've installed via the App Store) via the `softwareupdate` command line utility [0]. It's not at all ideal for an everyday user, but would work if you wanted to avoid the App Store entirely.
