feat(explore): refuse 0.6 GB on someone's mobile data
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Plan 016 B4. The catalog artifact is about 0.6 GB and the app fetched it
with no awareness of the connection: on a desktop that is a minute of
bandwidth, on a phone it can be a month's allowance. It is now skipped on
a cellular connection unless `AllowMeteredCatalogDownload` is on, with
the toggle in Settings' Search Index section, where the text explaining
what the catalog is already lives.

The file layout is dictated by the cgo rule rather than by taste.
`explore` is imported by `cmd/indexbuild`, which builds with
CGO_ENABLED=0 and must not link Wails, so `netpolicy.go` holds the policy
and the JSON parsing -- tested on every platform -- and the single
platform call is a closure injected from `app.go`, which already names
`application` legitimately.

Three rules in it are load-bearing. An unknown answer is not a metered
one: only mobile answers at all, and treating silence as metered would
have disabled the download for every desktop user in the world. Cellular
is the only signal available, because the runtime reports
`wifi|cellular|ethernet|none` and no metered flag -- so a metered Wi-Fi
cannot be detected and is not refused, which is documented rather than
implied. And the gate runs before the first status write, so declining is
a no-op instead of a job in the indicator and an error tier to dismiss.

Two corrections to the plan while implementing it: the portable API is
`application.Mobile.NetworkJSON()`, not `application.Android`'s, which
exists only under the `android` build tag; and the permission is read at
the moment a download would start, so enabling it takes effect on the
next attempt rather than the next launch.
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@@ -508,6 +508,31 @@ selected as a literal `0`. Adding the column to the importer's SELECT
list without that is how a published artifact — which nobody can re-cut
retroactively — starts failing with `no such column`.
**A 0.6 GB download asks about the connection first.** `explore`'s
catalog artifact had no network awareness at all, which on a phone is a
month's data allowance spent without being asked (plan 016 B4).
`netpolicy.go` is the gate, and its shape is dictated by one constraint:
`explore` is imported by `cmd/indexbuild`, which is built with
`CGO_ENABLED=0` and must not link Wails — so the *policy* and the
*parsing* live here and are tested on every platform, while the platform
call is a closure injected from `app.go`. It is
`application.Mobile.NetworkJSON()`, not `application.Android`'s: the
latter exists only under the `android` build tag, and `Mobile`'s desktop
implementation is a stub returning `""`.
Three rules in it are load-bearing. **An unknown answer is not a metered
one** — only mobile answers at all, so treating silence as metered would
refuse the download on every desktop. **Cellular is the only signal
available**: the runtime reports `wifi|cellular|ethernet|none` and no
metered flag, so a metered *Wi-Fi* (a hotspot, a hotel) cannot be
detected and is not refused, which is a documented gap rather than an
oversight. And **the gate runs before anything is staged**, so declining
is a no-op rather than a job in the indicator and a status the user has
to dismiss. The permission (`AllowMeteredCatalogDownload`, default
false, so an existing config is careful without a migration) is read at
the moment a download would start, so turning it on takes effect on the
next attempt rather than the next launch.
**Background work yields, and says so in the context.** The post-scan
backfills share MusicBrainz's rate limiters with every page the user
can open, and both were FIFO — so a thousand-artist enrichment put an