How do you people prevent Daz from phoning home? Windows Firewall or other measures? Do you still use DIM or do you install manually?

Sydney, I'm with you on OS choice. I can see how Daz are bound to keep the src closed as it's intertwinded with Iray, which I guess NV won't open src, but still I'd appreciate a Linux version as Windows needs to f-ing die.
Outside Daz I have no idea what's really out there. Sculpt from scratch is beyond the time I can invest so in terms of features Daz does what I want, but what competetion is out there? Poser looks like last decade, sorry. iClone - what else do I need here? What else is out there?