Huh… I bought from https://baofengtech.com/ not that long ago and didn’t have pandering boxes… they are located in South Dakota so I guess I can’t say I am super surprised, just disappointed.

Appreciate the transparency

Mandela Effect is a thing. The impulse to verify your understanding is a good thing, in contrast with people so stubborn they’d rather double down than admit they could be wrong.

It doesn’t sync between services, but last.fm can be your tracking source and connects to both Spotify (when I had it… assuming still true) and Tidal (ways to track Bandcamp and other streaming too).

I have to wait for the full calendar year to pass in last.fm, but I get more interesting stats than what I remember from wrapped.

I bought one of their NVRs, so that currently stores recordings. I have yet to figure out how (or if) I want to integrate with my NAS or other (tbd) home automation.

I get push notifications on my phone and watch by having the Reolink app installed.

I went with this but PoE. Happy so far.

Have not used Frigate

This happened to me several years ago on a similarly old account. I don’t think it was actually compromised, and I had no way to recover it as I had never set an email.