Liferea is also what I'm using for the time being, but I think he's only listing cloud based Reader alternatives.

I've noticed an interesting side effect from using a desktop based aggregator that doesn't sync with a smartphone; while before I'd obsessively comb through new items throughout the day, sometimes even impacting conversations, now I read everything in one fell swoop when I turn on my personal laptop at the end of the day. No more pulling the phone out at awkward places and times, the productivity benefits, at least for me, are immense.

One could argue that it's down to discipline, but if you actually have a mechanism that enforces this behavior it makes things immensely easier.