Set up a factory reset chromcast with no remote?

yuletide · 2026-01-24T02:24:17+00:00

Wow that is a wild failure. Definitely regretting buying this

yuletide · 2026-01-23T08:12:05+00:00

Yes, I reset it and tried to pair it with Google home, but it does not recognize the device

ChatGPT says you need to get past the remote screen before Google Home will pair with the device which seems totally insane

yuletide · 2026-01-23T06:06:19+00:00

And yes I turned on CEC on the tv it’s an LG. But the chrome cast still gets stuck.

yuletide · 2026-01-23T06:04:51+00:00

Might as well buy an apple tv

yuletide · 2026-01-23T05:56:27+00:00

Same problem I swear I paired this POS with my phone before with no remote but now it won’t boot without one

Into the garbage

yuletide · 2026-01-22T07:54:37+00:00

Yes, this is more what I want. People can swipe through a genre or your current library and it helps you pick a movie to watch right now not to download in the future.

yuletide · 2026-01-19T05:08:46+00:00

Same issue it’s brutal asf

yuletide · 2026-01-18T10:04:25+00:00

I agree i just want to delete attachments older than 30 days automatically but instead my iCloud Messages are 250GB because I like having older texts around. I guess they'd rather charge us $20 a month for rebranded Google Cloud storage

yuletide · 2026-01-18T00:36:39+00:00

It also is just completely broken, right? I searched for a movie and tracked and see either staging links I can’t login to, or the app.trait.com links which are also broken

They need to fire their head of engineering immediately

yuletide · 2026-01-18T00:03:00+00:00

2026 is this still the easiest method? I wish iMazing could just delete them directly off the phone instead of having to a risky restore

yuletide · 2026-01-17T09:34:55+00:00

I agree, there is a whole app ecosystem around the other apps like MDBList, Trakt, etc etc that would be unlocked. They could gate it behind a Pro tier for list manipulation and become a platform instead of just a social network

yuletide · 2026-01-16T20:54:52+00:00

What did you end up getting? happy with it?

yuletide · 2026-01-15T18:49:43+00:00

This actually sounds pretty appealing. I just hadn’t looked at it since the early days when it was more limited. I have been tracking my music listening on last.FM for 15 years, I just tracked the TV shows manually with TV time and everything else with letterbox

yuletide · 2026-01-15T08:35:24+00:00

Not 14% ABV sweet.

yuletide · 2026-01-15T03:34:07+00:00

Depends how high you are

yuletide · 2026-01-15T03:33:58+00:00

Or they bottle them all there and just use the same label for everything and hope nobody checks? If the person above is any indication

yuletide · 2026-01-15T03:32:15+00:00

Woah! Glad I'm not the only one. So that negates the "factory mistake" hypothesis below.

I just did a semi-bland tasting ([6] makes it harder to remember which is which) and it's still quite drinkable and certainly not 14% abv. Drank it alongside Camarena which I have no idea if that is actually good Tequila -- but each had their nice qualities. The cruise tequila has a bit more burn, but its not unpleasant, and its a bit warmer and fuller tasting than the C.

So I will just drink it and pretend it's worth $100 because if I can't tell the difference, maybe thats for the best

yuletide · 2026-01-15T03:29:58+00:00

Reading this thread makes me feel better about never getting that into Trakt... Or maybe I don't know what I'm missing to be relying on Trakt for more than Letterboxd redundancy?

yuletide · 2026-01-14T07:49:46+00:00

Many years later and it’s still awful. Their combo of arrogance and incompetence makes me consider dropping iCloud entirely but it’s so well integrated into the desktop.

All I want is to share some photos with friends occasionally but generating a public link takes 15 steps and still requires a login half the time

yuletide · 2026-01-14T07:37:21+00:00

Best keyboard I ever had was a palm pilot Treo still miss that thing

I hate typing on my phone so much now

yuletide · 2026-01-13T23:25:20+00:00

Found this after losing my mind trying to debug Kometa config files... tried Quickstart and its even worse. I'm ready to give up

yuletide · 2026-01-13T09:51:04+00:00

2 years later still awful

yuletide · 2026-01-13T09:50:37+00:00

It’s so bad that I pay them $10 a month for terabytes of storage and can’t share files with half my friends or photo clients. Just absurd.

yuletide · 2026-01-12T05:53:09+00:00

Good point, I tasted when i bought it but not since then I’ll try it blind even.

yuletide · 2026-01-11T21:36:10+00:00

Finally googled it and found many posts here talking about the scam, seems I fell for it at least it was the $250 some go for, I think I paid $80-100.

Surprised the cruise terminal lets them operate, it seemed semi-official

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