allows downloading updates in the background.
the app won't run 24/7 (only wakelocks on demand)
e.g. you could start downloading a couple of gigabytes of updates, close the app to foreground or lock your phone and expect them to not be interrupted
same with my old lenovo laptop, i shorted both the power and data pins literally hundreds of times while tinkering with microcontrollers, and all it did is disable the ports until a reboot
well last time i tried doing that all pdf files got borked with no way to fix the issue, on windows 11.
there used to be a semi official way to do it in win10 from 2021-2024, they broke it in January and reinstalled edge tho
one of local Ukrainian isps offered to run fiber (symmetrical 100) to the middle of nowhere. like literally, the nearest store is a couple if kilometers away, it's the last building along a road literally surrounded by a huge field, in a village with like 10 people still living in it.
(i don't need constant internet connection there tho as I'm only there occasionally, 4g is more than enough)
it's still cheaper and doesn't really matter for like games and stuff.
like you could get a 256gb ssd + 1tb 7200rpm ssd.
extra 5 seconds waiting on the loading screen don't really matter that much and most games are actually optimized to run decently from hdds (except recent games that came out after like 2018)
also, defender is synchronous by default (e.g. nothing gets written until it gets scanned, and scanning parallelization is limited), and can only act asynchronously (aka write first, then queue check) on "trusted dev drives" (aka ReFS-based virtual vhdx partitions aimed at developers as a solution to horrible ntfs throughput, especially if defender is enabled)
well gog games can be safely pirated because the executables you're getting are signed with their digital signature.
it's much less morally correct tho, especially because most of the games published on gog are indie games, but if you have literally no money to spend (like I used to) there aren't any better options
allows downloading updates in the background.
the app won't run 24/7 (only wakelocks on demand)
e.g. you could start downloading a couple of gigabytes of updates, close the app to foreground or lock your phone and expect them to not be interrupted