Holy crap, someone is making a FOSS alternative to Android Auto.

github.com/Benjamin-Wiegand/Fl…

Always a great feeling when stuff just works like you want it to, no surprises, first try. For a long time now I've wanted to dump a list of feeds into a reader and read things that way vs. hitting the same blogs over and over myself. I wanted something that worked everywhere, listed full or summary article text on a single page so I didn't have to click through each link, had good markup, etc. The main reason I put it off was my certainty that I'd either find something that only worked in one place, like my phone, or that finding something which worked at all would be a project.

The Nextcloud News app seems to have ticked all the boxes so far, up to and including a screen reader mode and screen-reader-only keyboard shortcuts. Color me pleased. It's possible there's something I'm missing and this won't hold, but I'm glad to have found something this functional on my first try, without having to research half a dozen other contenders first.

Now I have feeds, contacts, calendars, tasks, podcasts, recipes, and photos all in Nextcloud. It's all mostly accessible, and not going away because some third party (cough cough Google) decides to kill it off.