You Should Know @lemmy.world Cyo @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

YSK: Simplewall is a free tool to have more control over your internet on your desktop. (For Windows)

I found about this a few months ago, it's a free tool that makes the task of managing the internet access of programs a easy one. For example, you can select exactly which process can access the internet manually, of course blocking some system things on windows will disable the connection totally until reactivated.

With this I can prevent apps from updating when I don't need it them online.

Each time you execute a new program if it tries to connect to the internet it will be blocked by simplewall and ask you if allow or not.

It is compatible with windows 7 and higher versions.

You should read how to use it and what it does before installing it.

The program is open source and it's on GitHub: https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

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It's so good to know that even on a totally new platform I can start building up a list of saved posts I'm "totally gonna get back to later" like nothing even happened.
- One of the biggest things I miss about Apollo was the ability to group and order my saved posts, and then search for them. I can’t wait for Wefwef (or perhaps another app…) to bring back that functionality here.
  
  Haha, I've simply made my peace with the trek of a scroll. That said, I am actually pretty good about totally getting around to posts, so my list does occasionally shrink.
Safing Portmaster is similar for Windows and Linux, also FOSS
- Using it for a while. Love it. Do you know how they compared?
  
  I don't, Safing was the first I heard that does anything like that and only one i've used
  
  Portmaster ui is still clunky doesn't show blocked apps separately. No easy way to restart it's notifier.
  
  No way to allow all or block all in notifications
- I switched from simplewall to portmaster and I actually like it more. It gives me more control over my system
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Should I disable windows firewall if I use this? It wasn't clear from their docs whether I should.
- https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall#q-is-it-safe-to-use-simplewall-with-windows-firewall
  
  Q: Is it safe to use simplewall with Windows Firewall?
  
  A: Yes. You do not need to disable Windows Firewall. These two firewalls work independently.
LittleSnitch if you're on MacOS, though I gather Apple has been caught overriding users' rules to phone home, so you may want to combine it with other measures such as a DNS manager.
- You have any articles about apple's behaviour? tia.
I use netlimiter 4 for that. the newer version 5 only has a monthly subscription but when asking nicly per mail they still sell the lifetime license for version 4
- I used that earlier but my potato PC couldn't handle that software so I had to move on.
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