NanaZip VS LuLu

If you have Windows 10 or above, you should instead use NanaZip instead of 7-Zip-zstd. It is a massively improved fork of 7-Zip.

The first part of modernizing is port everything to XAML, adding dark mode and others. It's expected to be during this year, new UI in 2024. It's in their roadmap in GitHub

https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

imo better integration with Win 10/11 context menus and more compression codecs

These days NanaZip is considered to be better, it's a fork of 7Zip.

Programs like NanaZip (a 7zip fork) that do implement the new API are right there on the right-click menu where you'd want them to be.

You could install WPD (https://wpd.app/), use Simplewall (https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall) and a pihole on the network to block a lot, but it's still sad that we need to do this.

Apple alternatives include LuLu (https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu)

Looking for steps to compile this GitHub project https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu

LuLu is probably the most user-friendly application.

The worst thing that could happen is that one of the governments would specifically ask Apple for the data of everyone in your area, or just you. I don't know how bad this is for you, but with open source programs like LuLu, you can see how much data your computer is sending to Apple in the background without you noticing.

There's also a free (open source) equivalent available, called Lulu: https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu

jok, https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu

Lulu is open source and free, with 7.8k stars on GitHub.

LuLu is a free alternative for LittleSnitch

LuLu, a free and open-source firewall