I'd set it only if there's a connection, but on things like Linux I just leave it set.
It was a while ago but IIRC it'll give you errors if you try and make an HTTP request/etc without having set up a connection, and the hope was that at some point I'd add something that would automatically look on the net for referenced modules if there was a network connection.
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I'd set it only if there's a connection, but on things like Linux I just leave it set.
It was a while ago but IIRC it'll give you errors if you try and make an HTTP request/etc without having set up a connection, and the hope was that at some point I'd add something that would automatically look on the net for referenced modules if there was a network connection.