EFI was actually invented and specified by Intel. The specification for UEFI, its successor, is maintained by a consortium of manufacturers.
If you think UEFI is the baddest thing out there, check out SMM. It can be used to silently subvert any Intel-based machine going all the way back to some '386 parts.
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As a serial bug owner, I can tell you that 18 MPG was the best you could expect.
Drivers are not employed by Uber, rather they are employed by the person whom they are giving a lift to. Uber is simply the intermediate of which the two connect to one another - much like a telephone company. On that basis alone this case will flop as Uber does not owe drivers the same duty of care that an employer would owe an employee.
You may be able to outsource the work; but, the responsibility is still yours. Hopefully the courts will see through this shell game fiction.
Saw 'Bones do this on TV. See, Spocks' brain was cut out by bimbos to run a planet-sized HVAC system. "Brain and brain, what is brain?" demanded the head bimbo when Kirk requested it back. Fortunately, 'Bones put a colander on his head and hooked the brain back up with a nerve hooker upper.
So, that's how it's done.
Expecting Lenovo to manage to learn/know/discern every bug, flaw, or undesired side-effect of every software package they allow on the preload image isn't practical.
Then they are doing their customers a disservice by including it. No way around it, stuffing retail machines with crapware is evil.
Memory fault - where am I?