I am no lover of the phone home set up or what I call the deactivation feature and was particularly upset at the sneaky way Smith Micro introduced it in the Game Dev upgrade but that is ancient history now.  For me it is not an issue as my computer is connected to the Internet and I have a reliable connection.  On the plus side it does provide a method by which you can add python scripts, and manage updates of the same, anything else I manually install.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.