You're not alone. Google Reader was my best friend. Instead of opening it up to the community they shut it down, Very Sad Day. Then they started messing with the XMPP server and thats when I "snapped"; Ive never seen Google the same since.
Ive tried my best to either decentralize my services or host them myself.
I've been running an instance of Tiny Tiny Rss to replace my reader. I would highly recommend it to you.
Edit: Trusting any 3rd party central server is probably a mistake, as you have no sovereignty. Tricking users to surrender data sovereignty is being pushed hard, specifically through service-level agreements. I know Microsoft has been getting a lot of praise lately, but re-defining malware and taking from the open source communities should not be an honorable moral.
They ended support for Safari back in January 2017. It's still on version 5.2.2, while all other browsers are on version 5.12.0.
If you can't stand the screen glare, I highly recommend this:
"f.lux makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better."
I had to adapt to it a bit at first, but if I turn it off now it's like looking into the sun. Can't believe I used to use my computer without it.
At this point no, since the Pale Moon developers have decided not to support Firefox Jetpack extensions (which RES is) nor Firefox WebExtensions (which RES soon will be).
For people using opera you can use this extension to download the chrome version til the opera version is updated.
If this is against the rules just reply and i will delete the comment.
Having been in the Moz community for awhile I remember there being a program called seamonkey which was the Mozilla Browser Suite before there was Firefox(or if you like Firebird) and Thunderbird(IIRC I think it was called Minotaur). It is basically an all in one browser, with an email client, IRC Client, HTML Editing, etc. You can check it out, AFAIK the Moz foundation no longer maintains it but it is maintained by the SeaMonkey Community and is based on the same Layout engine as Firefox (Gecko).
Don't mind at all if you wanted to contribute real money to the RES team! All the devs appreciate the occasional tip-out. The kind words are great, too. (That said, don't bother with PayPal if it's <$3, the fees eat up the contribution.)
You can also contribute by helping people solve RES problems, writing documentation, providing feedback here.
Without RES reddit will become an app-only experience for me.
Relay is pretty good. Put it in list view and it's basically old.reddit + RES except with mobile-friendly navigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stephenson_von_Tetzchner https://vivaldi.com/
I don't necessarily share all the opinions of the person you're replying to, but Vivaldi is a great browser - if you like RES you'll appreciate all the customisation that Vivaldi offers, and it works perfectly with RES.
It's not built from the ground up though, it's still Blink-based like Chrome and modern Opera.