{"id":282215,"date":"2025-11-26T05:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingramblog.wordpress.com\/2025\/11\/26\/a-totally-normal-thing-for-your-printer-to-tell-you\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T05:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:15:17","slug":"a-totally-normal-thing-for-your-printer-to-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2025\/11\/26\/a-totally-normal-thing-for-your-printer-to-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"A totally normal thing for your printer to tell you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just for fun I actually read the agreement before installing the 105-megabyte software update for my Epson printer, which (like many printers) is a gigantic piece of crap that rarely works properly. This is the best part:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SECTIONS 19-23 OF THIS DOCUMENT APPLY TO YOU. SECTION 22 CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION THAT LIMITS YOUR ABILITY TO SEEK RELIEF IN A COURT BEFORE A JUDGE OR JURY, AND WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN CLASS ACTIONS OR CLASS ARBITRATIONS FOR CERTAIN DISPUTES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for fun I actually read the agreement before installing the 105-megabyte software update for my Epson printer, which (like many printers) is a gigantic piece of crap that rarely works properly. This is the best part: SECTIONS 19-23 OF THIS DOCUMENT APPLY TO YOU. SECTION 22 CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION THAT LIMITS YOUR &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2025\/11\/26\/a-totally-normal-thing-for-your-printer-to-tell-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A totally normal thing for your printer to tell you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}