Factory reset isn’t the end of the world, I did it to my gen2 Chromecast when the outage first happened and managed to get it connected again by rolling my phone’s date back and finishing the setup.

This article was super helpful and helped temporarily restore casting functionality from my phone. https://mensfeld.pl/2025/03/bringing-your-chromecast-back/

Yeah, this always gets passed around without credit to the author. They’re not real words, but are poems and invented words by John Koeing (possibly other words mixed in).

I first came across most of these on his YouTube channel Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

There is also a blog and a book has also been released.