You can tell that this guy has never had support systems in 30 different countries. UTC From a security perspective is almost a requirement. Date time offsets can dramatically increased amount of time that a root cause analysis of a compromised system. If you are a small business in one time zone sending things to local time is fine. But if you were a large multinational setting time to anything but UTC is a disaster waiting to happen.
I’ve been using BAZQUX which is a nice aggregator and reeder4 Since 2013. I have a nice opml file. And my eyes don’t bleed because I could have text only webpages. For those of you who are adventurous you can try TINYTINYRSS. I don’t see why everyone said RSS is dead almost every site still supports it.
Easiest way to deal with it with it was to learn how to cook myself. The other thing I learned with the art of packing my own Bento box. That way I never had to worry about people cast contaminating or getting me sick.