★★★★★
Well-designed, runs smoothly, great for ordering items to pick up in-store or for shipping. Cart syncs with the website, so you can do some of your shopping on a bigger screen and some of it on your phone. They really refined curbside pickup during the early part of the pandemic, and it’s able to handle complex situations like picking up different parts of your order at different locations, or picking up two orders at once at the same store.
★★★★☆
Fun and weird, good for killing time while you’re waiting in line. Eventually it gets monotonous, but it takes a while to get there.
★★★★★
Clean, stable, fast, free, no-clutter and no-nonsense RSS/Atom newsfeed reader for macOS and iOS. You can read articles in the application or open them in the web browser of your choice.
It’s an app, not a service, so it’s not tracking you or inserting ads. That also means there’s no web version. But it can sync over iCloud, and with a variety of web-based newsreaders (including Feedly, Feedbin, InoReader, and FreshRSS), so you can keep track of your subscriptions and read/unread articles across devices. External actions can be set up with any Share extensions installed on the system, and you can choose an alternate web browser to open posts.
Unfortunately it doesn’t sync with Nextcloud News (yet).
I haven’t used the iOS version, but I highly recommend the macOS application!
★★★★★
Simple web-based news reader for Nextcloud. Feels faster in the browser than some desktop apps I’ve used. Took me all of a minute to install on my Nextcloud server, and a few more to find the export button on Feedly. (Nextcloud imported my subscriptions perfectly, by the way.) In addition to running smoothly on the website, there are multiple clients for desktop or mobile access. RSS Guard is a solid option on Windows, macOS and Linux, and I quite like NewsFlash on Linux. Just be sure to use an app-specific password on each client – some won’t sync properly with the main login.
For my phone I went with NextCloud News for Android. Lightweight, fast, and stable. Works exactly like you’d expect, down to swiping gestures to save/archive posts from the list view, or flip through article view, and matches the system light/dark theme by default.
Super easy to set up if you already have the Nextcloud app on your phone.
You can also manage your subscriptions through the app, including autodetecting feeds on websites that support it, and importing subscriptions from an OPML file.
★★★☆☆
It’s hard to pin down Picard Season 2.
The opening episode should have been an opening 5 minutes. From there it turns into something that looks like a Mirror Universe story but isn’t. By episode 3 it’s a fix-the-timeline story set in the present day (more or less – the Europa mission is way too soon for real-world 2024, but Artemis II is targeted for roughly the same window!) interwoven with an intriguing story about mental illness and trauma.
The next few episodes are actually pretty good! Interesting concepts, social commentary, some mystery, character exploration, some nice references to Star Trek IV for the nostalgia, Brent Spiner as yet another ancestor of Dr. Soong.
But once they figure out what’s changed and what they need to fix, the story just turns into a messy kitchen-sink stew. Things make sense individually but the connections don’t, or vice versa. Overkill is the rule, as character developments are sidelined or discarded, thematic resolutions are undermined, and the timey-wimey ball unravels into a timey-wimey mess.