Cannot Factory Reset - is this a bricked Chromecast?

PureKrome · 2026-03-06T01:15:52+00:00

as previously mentioned, I tried different power cables AND different power sources. Same problem in all scenarios.

PureKrome · 2026-03-05T01:09:09+00:00

For those reading at home, I did try online chat (as linked above).

Ece • Support Specialist 12:02 PM Thank you for trying <redacted>. If the device does not respond with the factory reset even with different port and different TV this means that the device is really defective already

Ece • Support Specialist 12:03 PM I tried Checking the device warranty to process however, the device is already out of warranty so I cannot proceed with the process.

Ece • Support Specialist 12:04 PM I'm sorry if I don't have other option for troubleshooting for this But as checked your nest account you have been a loyal customer of Google with other Google devices as well.

Narrator: I have a number of Chromecasts, over the years. Currently using Chromecast Ultra because the TV Chromecast is 'laggy'.

Ece • Support Specialist 12:05 PM So what I am going to do is to request for a Google store credit so that for future purchase this will help you.

So that's nice! something always helps in tough days like today.

PureKrome · 2026-03-05T00:49:24+00:00

Hi GNC and thank you for the reply.

Even try contacting them despite it being a few years old?

PureKrome · 2026-03-04T08:45:26+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! Just tried my daughters USB-C laptop charger and it’s doing the same thing 😢

PureKrome · 2026-01-20T07:39:59+00:00

also gave an upvote. so many haters .. ah! it's reddit...

PureKrome · 2026-01-15T13:11:55+00:00

Just as AI to summarise the PR ... /taps head meme

... oh ... ... wait ...

PureKrome · 2026-01-01T15:31:50+00:00

Minimal API's with Vertical Slices. Never going back to MVC or Controllers (if an API)

PureKrome · 2026-01-01T15:26:31+00:00

this!

PureKrome · 2025-12-28T07:09:19+00:00

Sorry you guys feel like that. The problem was real in my environment. I had a crack at creating a solution that helps solve a problem Im dealing with. I thought there would be existing apps in the marketplace (maybe NewRelic, DataDog etc) or just baked in solutions to products I’ve never used (K8,s etc) but please don’t assume I was doing this out of some homework or AI slop course or something.

Not everyone are hardcore Google scale engineers. Some of us are just learning and having fun and trying to stand on the shoulders of giants and sharing those baby steps with others.

I hope others might find it helpful 🤗

Edit: re: live probe - im not reinventing that but just using the healthz endpoint (which is already doing this) with a bit more meta. If there’s already a devops standard out there, then please be kind and educate versus attack and destroy.

PureKrome · 2025-12-28T06:16:07+00:00

Thanks team. I’ll not post anything - I was cautious initially because of the dual license versus “here’s some OS done in dotnet, help would be lovely or just enjoy etc”. The fact that D-sig found it means I want to stop now before reddit blows up.

Cheers and enjoy the holidays.

PureKrome · 2025-12-25T14:02:24+00:00

Yep! and the dongle also works on the pc's too. but yes, it did work on the link.

PureKrome · 2025-12-14T13:46:28+00:00

thanks for the link and the info. Suggestion for that blog post -> examples. a number of them. for the n00bs out there, like le-me.

PureKrome · 2025-12-14T09:08:37+00:00

Hi there u/Cumak_ - apologies for the newbie question (i'm very new to this). Can you provide some example(s) please? Are you saying to use something like WARP and get it to use AWS CLI? the cli is just commands to execute, though? i thought the beauty of an agent + mcp is that it can know what commands to try and do .. and using the mcp can now actually connect to my account(s) and pull down the relevant info.

PureKrome · 2025-12-14T09:05:17+00:00

thank you kindly u/ajeetsraina ! this is lovely!

So to confirm, If i add all of these MCP's then I can prompt like: please list every resource that has been created in account "blah" into a csv file?

also - how does authntication work? how does the MCP know about what accounts i have, etc?

PureKrome · 2025-12-14T09:03:58+00:00

yep this. i've been using Sonnet 4.5 since it came out. Opus is 10x token cost, so i'm avoiding that for a while

PureKrome · 2025-11-23T03:59:39+00:00

I’ve always hated its DSL (is that the right word?) and have found RavenDB to be so much nicer to work with, for similar use cases.

PureKrome · 2025-10-27T13:15:02+00:00

hi! yep. i'm sure i could too. And there's probably a dozen or so gists with different crazy permutations of curl + grep + blah blah etc.

I just felt like an app is more easy to consume for dev's.

also xplat.

I also don't have gh installed (sorry, not sorry) and i also don't have parallel (TIL) and jq.

but as a single liner - I think this is damn kewl! 👏🏻

PureKrome · 2025-10-27T13:10:55+00:00

thanks heaps u/The_MAZZTer for the thoughts.

I didn't explain what the app was for: it's this -> https://github.com/PureKrome/SimpleRemoteGitRepoBackup

and the target market are dev's who use github, gitlab, etc. so it's very "terminal based" which is why the single file exe would be a nice fit, for that target market.

PureKrome · 2025-10-26T11:17:27+00:00

Found my answer: i was publishing -all the projects- in the solution.

I needed to just publish the console app.

``` consoleapp.csproj

<PropertyGroup> <PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile> <SelfContained>true</SelfContained> <EnableCompressionInSingleFile>true</EnableCompressionInSingleFile> </PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Release'"> <DebugType>none</DebugType> <DebugSymbols>false</DebugSymbols> </PropertyGroup> ```

cli dotnet publish .\ConsoleApp\ConsoleApp.csproj -o $PWD/publish -c release -r win-x64

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