I was just fighting with a bunch of 2012 Nexcomm machines recently, trying to get them to boot UEFI, and despite a few references to UEFI and EFI in the BIOS, it does not seem possible. Guess somebody is going to have to upgrade a bunch of machines soon.

Yeah, just as much as Teams, Zoom, Skype, Facebook, etc all do. The problem for big companies is you are limited to 15 people in the group no matter what. So when the CEO wants to give a video speech live to 200 people working at home, what do you think happens? The whole company switches from Slack to Teams overnight, because Skype doesn't exist for some users (we have people on Ubuntu laptops), Zoom is a security nightmare the IT department won't allow, and obviously Facebook is right out.

It's Slack's own fault for this super-low limit, and I'm pretty sure tons of other companies suddenly found themselves in the same situation when Covid-induced mass work-from-home started. And have they gone back and fixed this 15 person limit yet? Not that I've heard. So yeah, now Teams is the only choice left.

Yeah, we basically had a lockdown in Japan. Except here if your business was asked nicely to close, and you chose not to, you'd be publically shamed on TV. Would never work in America, but that works in Japan. I've been working at home since February, and lots of other people have been as well. It's only not-a-lockdown on the technicality of the constitution forbidding calling it such a thing.

You sound like an experienced Node programmer.

Really? While I have all kinds of problem with the State of Michigan websites, I can use Vanguard with no problem from Japan.

The business website at https://cofs.lara.state.mi.us/... is still blocking me, despite all my emails telling them about it. Do they want my yearly business fee payment or not?

I constantly have this problem with Michigan, while living in Japan.

Pay my quarterly estimated taxes? Website blocked
Pay my business LLC fee? Website blocked
Register for an absentee ballot? Website blocked

It's a constant battle to call people late at night when it's early morning there. And there answer is just to clear my cache or try a different browser.
After long battles, I managed to reach the right IT people in some of the departments and get some of the access enabled. But it seems like each department has a different IT contact and I wasn't able to get the business department people to understand the problem still. I'm pretty sure they're still firewalling all non-US IPs for "security"

So now Google Maps will stop suggesting a 4000 yen Uber ride as a great alternative to a 200 yen train fare?

My Pixel fried itself randomly after 9 months while using the stock cable/charger and because I'm in Japan with an International edition, Google refuses to help. They send me to Google Japan who sends me back to Google USA because Google Japan doesn't sell the Pixel directly themselves in Japan. I bought it in Japan, from a Japanese retailer, but that doesn't seem to matter. I'm stuck with super-slow charging (100mA probably) but the phone still works and charges with other cables. I've never in my life seen a USB cable just randomly melt overnight, and I've had a lot of phones/cables/charges over the years.

Adblock Plus and FireFTP I've read statements from saying reduced functionality maybe and completely impossible. I also have CookieCuller, Cookie Manager, and Saved Password Editor which are all still saying Legacy. These 3 seem simple enough but maybe there won't be anything in FF57. I'm not going to waste my time upgrading and searching for replacements though just because FF wants to break backwards compatibility. Nuke Anything is the only extension that seems like it will work if I upgrade to FF57, and that's not really as important as the other ones.
 

1 out of 6 of my extensions are OK to go for FF57. Some of them that aren't have issued statements saying that it's impossible to work with WebExtensions so they have no possibility to go forward. I basically have no choice but to stay with FF56 until they see the light and add back support for real extensions.

But if you have a 1seg-capable phone, the NHK man can come collect fees from you, even if you never use it. I'm glad my phone doesn't have 1seg because I bought it from the states.

Not the AC, but I already disabled automatic updates on my Firefox. I'll update to 56 when it comes out, but I have too many extensions, and 100% of them say "legacy" which means they'll all stop working with Firefox 57. There is nothing but pain to move forward to FF57, and I've visited the home pages and blogs of various extensions that I use, and it seems like they've all come to the conclusion that they simply CAN'T migrate to WebExtensions. The functionality just doesn't exist, so the extension will never make it to FF57. I might as well switch to Chrome if I'm going to switch to a less functional browser, so let's hope FF56 gets many years of patches.

Might be true, but I still look at it as a failure of USB-C that this situation is even possible.

There is not separate in/out ports on this external battery like other older batteries I've owned. It uses the one USB-C port for charging and discharging. The exact same way my Nexus 5x can use it's one USB-C port to charge or discharge it's own battery.

If works 100% of the time means it randomly does something different 50% of the time from what it does the other 50% of the time, then yes, it's working. If that's the case, Microsoft is right to wait on USB-C, because this is just stupid. Maybe USB Cv2 or something will fix this glaring issue.