Regarding mail: Have a look at “not much”. It’s main selling point is a searchable inbox. Mutt is also popular, albeit somewhat archaic looking.

I’m all for criticizing the ignorance of the ruling class in the second part of the quote, but the first part is just all toxic masculinity.

Isn’t the problem with RSS nowadays getting good sources? What’s your reader of choice and how do you use it?

Lying on your side, a device like this still gets in your way. It’s a really weird use case.