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I performed a factory reset on my Google Home speaker. In the process, my Kidde smoke alarm became disconnected. I cannot reconnect it -- I'm directed to download the Nest app, which I do; but when I attempt to connect the smoke alarm I end up in a r...

Scmrak · 05-08-2025

After one day of using a new Google TV streamer I knew I had to customize some settings. I used the settings>>sound menu to turn on auto-volume levelling (because commercials on Paramount+ are about 30% louder than the content) and then turned on clo...

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I'll just "move" and start over.

Scmrak · 05-14-2025

"Let's see what I can do" means "go somewhere else and post there"? Followed by boilerplate support-speak about how valuable I am to the company and how hard they work to make me happy?Yeah, sure.

Scmrak · 04-07-2023

Yeah, people know it came out ten years ago. That's ostensibly why the utility app was written. People aren't griping about that, they're complaining that an application specifically written to allow devices running more recent versions of an OS to m...

Scmrak · 02-22-2023

Yeah, "Seriously, WTF?" has been the reaction of just about everyone who's tried to move a Gen 1 Chromecast to a new network with a Google phone newer than the Pixel 3...

Scmrak · 01-07-2023

Fortunately, I had kept my old Pixel 2 instead of trading it in. After I charged it up, I was able to use it with the "device utility app" instead of the Pixel 6a that wouldn't work. You'd think that after a couple of years, someone at Alpha would ha...

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