Dowse has been available in Dyne's offerings since about the time they started the Devuan project. There was a live demonstration at the Conference. It provides a way to turn off those phone home devices:

https://dyne.org/software/dowse/

Question I don't have any phone-home or other devices needing wifi . . . everything is wired. Am I still at risk for wifi messing with my machine(s) if wifi isn't activated on my account or router?

Why would you assume that? The relationship has not been friendly or cooperative since before the farcical 2014 General Resolution.

Here' how that went down . . .
Combatting revisionist history

Even before that, things were quite heated and unfriendly on all Debian channels.

Typo? No verb . . .

I run Xfce quite happily on 8 GB RAM.

@aluma . . . you should be able to edit you own post for a limited number of days.

Huh? I have been using Devuan with xfce since 2015 and NEVER had to use pulse audio. apulse has always been there so alsa worked ootb.

Note that Daedalus is not "Dead----". This is important for those doing a search of this forum. I corrected your first post earlier but perhaps you could correct the spelling in the post immediately above? Thanks!

Excalibur is unlikely to be "settled" until Debian Trixie goes stable . . . if even then. Proceed with caution as there will likely be more bumps in the road..

Please use code tags (see line above this input box) to hilight terminal output. Thanks.

Dragom or Dragon?

@Altoid . . . Perhaps a less verbose and redundant writing style would solve the problem. After all Devuanistas do tend to be minimalists! 

Just incoherent ramblings which we are watching carefully . . .