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Steer

Let's get this out of the way; My biggest issue with AI writing apps is they strip away the tone and character of writing. Imagine two people send you an email. They both include the phrase "Let's connect and align on this". Out of context, how would you identify who said that?  As opposed to "Let's meet for a working lunch (So we're both still paid on the clock) and go over paperwork," or "See me at 2 PM to revisit the project". Companies could save a lot of time and money on "team-building events" if the vice grip of professionalism in writing communication was beaten back. You can be professional and authentic without being inappropriate - or you can be the same as everybody else.  But meanwhile, we have many tools to help proofread your writing - Something I don't mind AI doing. Steer ( Product Hunt ) is described as ''a native macOS utility that allows users to quickly fix and iterate their writing in any app or w...

A 2-week Trial of T-Mobile Home Internet

     The Xfinity app showed usage of the past 3 months: We used less than 40% each month, for about $80 USD a month.   No thanks! That cuts into the movie budget! Before we save some money (about $15/mo), let's test how T-Mobile Internet unlimited data works for 2 weeks.    There are 15 devices for this test; Smart TVs: 4 Laptops: 4 Printer: 1 Smart Home Speakers: 3 Game Consoles: 1 Phones: 1 (There are other phones in the home but they stick with data) Other: 1 Total : 15  I made tables for 3 entries a day across 3 days to test the Xfinity service we have. Here's one;   Xfinity is pretty speedy - Download times are between 227 - 236 Mbps, Latency between 24.5 - 25.5, Jitter between 5 - 6.68, and 0 packet loss.  Let's quickly define the terms in the table;    Date/Time - The date and time of the data gathered. Download (Mpbs) - How fast your network gets data. Upload (Mbps) - How fast your network uploads data. Latency ...