Flashing folder with “?” after remote erase - can’t enter recovery mode.

Yes -realize what the flashing question mark means - I probably should have been more clear about that, so my apologies for failing to say that.

This is an Apple Silicon Mac with an M1 processor, so the instructions you gave will not work to boot it into recovery. That only works for Intel Macs. The problem is that the instructions that Apple DOES give to boot into recovery with this particular MacBook Pro don’t work either. There is also no longer an option for a network boot making things even more puzzling. To boot this machine into recovery from a shut down state, you are supposed to press and hold the power button until an options screen appears. That doesn’t work. It goes right back to the flashing folder with the question mark. The procedure if THAT fails is to double tap the power button and hold it until the options screen appears. That doesn’t work either and gets the same result - there are no further instructions. I’m hoping someone here might know what to do when both of those methods fail…or if I’m just completely missing something. I know this Mac worked just fine with zero issues before she found herself having to remote erase it.

But thank you so much for trying, I am at a complete loss on what to try next and like I said when I posted my question, it’s out of warranty and she’s not trying to spend a small fortune sending it into Apple to be fixed. Especially since I have a feeling that this may be something simple that we aren’t doing or that we’re missing…