If you don’t trust the software (you could just use Wireshark or similar tools to check whether it connects to the internet at all), then yes, that would work.
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If you don’t trust the software (you could just use Wireshark or similar tools to check whether it connects to the internet at all), then yes, that would work.
Yes, please provide details of their dishonesty. We've seen their EULA, your questions regarding it, but you having problems with ELUA does not equate to dishonesty
Having red flags is not the same thing as a company overtly looking to lie and be dishonest as you state.
This firewall is very similar, opensource and free:
Objective-See: LuLu
objective-see.org
If the file manager is free you can simply block all internet connections and just have to update always manually by downloading the latest version.
If it's not free it might check the registration once in a while or at every launch and you can't block all connections. But mostly the name of the connection responsible for this is obvious. But you never can't be sure if this connection is used for other things too.
I can't decide what file manager to use. I installed all of them and somehow always get back to Finder. Those several Commanders, I just always forget to launch them. And when I put one of them in "launch on login". I forget it when it's minimized.
There is also Forklift.
and this one: https://marta.sh
I downloaded Bloom now too. Never heard of it.
I need something that is replacing Finder completely like Xtra Finder, Total Finder or Path Finder. But those were not very stable already with Sequoia. They even run in macOS 26 more or less. I hope for an update. I'll try all three again in Beta 4.
QSpace supports that. When some other application offers something like "Open in Finder" and I use it, QSpace opens. It's a QSpace setting to replace Finder, just as it is in Path Finder. QSpace can also replace your desktop.
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You would need some third-party tool. I use Little Snitch.
Lulu is free but Little Snitch is significantly more full-featured and easier to use.
Thanks, it's great. I just purchased it. Not a single crash in macOS 26, while all the others TotalFinder/XtraFinder/Path Finder crashed very often already in Sequoia.
I am testing what happens besides getting no updates when all connections are blocked for several days.
Another one to try out: Folders File Manager, I'm just about to try it myself. I can't see it taking me away from QSpace but we'll see 
I installed QSpace just now and for some reason, it isn’t seeing connected network drives. I assume the section on QSpace listed as ‘Servers’ in the side bar is equivalent of network in Finder. Forklift sees my connected NAS right away.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
You will eventually be asked to reverify your account by requesting a new activation code. The dialog that pops up will try to contact the QSpace server to trigger the email to your registered address. I think it will take about 10 days for that to happen. I did test after reading
and disabled access. That was 10 days ago. Today I got the popup:
I clicked on "Already have an account". Then, because the access to the QSpace server was still blocked, I got the popup:
So, QSpace will require access to their servers now and then.
I agree. A number of applications I run require license verification now and again by contacting a server.
One consequence of this approach is that the software will cease to function if the company goes out of business.
yea i am losing my trust with apple, contemplating a move to linux
Why would you trust IBM/Red Hat, Microsoft and the NSA, the main contributors to Linux (including its closed source parts), more than Apple?
The belief in the safety and goodness of open source software is a bit of a religion. The conclusions are often not reasoned carefully.
Hey, I love open source software, the spirit of collaboration and the benefits it brings to the software community at large. It also pushes closed-sourced software companies to be better and more affordable. But it's no panacea. Poor quality and bad intentions can make its way into all types of code.
But, I suspect the open-source parts of Linux that are contributed by large organizations are of high quality and free of malicious intent. The code would be reviewed by others and the damage to the reputation of those organizations would be extreme if some funny business was going on. Minor infractions would raise complaints and ultimately be backed out. But, less-known contributors have been known to raise havoc.
What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.
arstechnica.com
Of course, most people who install Linux also install closed source parts that are included in their chosen distribution.
The problem is that security back doors are working best on your hardware, not in your software:
arstechnica.com
“We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say
Following NSA leaks from Snowden, engineers lose faith in hardware randomness.
arstechnica.com