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At least you have the benefit of an instruction book. We are driving one of our sons car and with no instructions, we finally figured out the ‘source’ thing. but the rest is buttons with combinations of consonants that have absolutely no meaning to me. And the volume and search the dial button are the same, only you push north/south or east/west, and the slightest deviation and you’ve lost your channel or are blasted to incredible decibels. Plus it has a feature where the front pops off so you can just take it with you I guess, and I’m not sure how to do it, but I have done it a couple of times.

I’m like you adjusting the volume is easier than turning it off and on.
Merry Christmas

There must be some blind spot that computer engineers have which prevents them from seeing that (1) most people are not computer engineers, (2) there is no point making simple things complicated, and (3) not everyone is looking for a zillion features to have to wade through to do simple things.

I had a hi tech watch I liked, but it had an hourly beep that could not be disabled, and an alarm that defied all efforts to disarm.

Cruelly, its piezo transducer was at exactly the pitch where there is a 6 dB notch in my hearing. (Firearms).

So, it would disrupt meetings, and annoy everyone and cause embarassment. When my wife and I went on vacation, I had to wrap it in a sock and lock it in the safe, or it would wake her up every hour.

One day we were out for a walk, and she told me, "Your watch is beeping". There was a heavy line of traffic coming quickly down the road. A perfect time for the watch to be flung under the wheels- Very satisfying.

I bought a Russian-Made CRUDE thing with GEARS and SPRINGS (Paketa) that served me well for years. Ugly as a used tractor, but quiet and accurate. Twenty bucks.