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  • It doesn’t matter where you installed it from, it will behave as a store app for some reason. What if you disable all app updates:

    This won’t affect windows security updates, only updates for apps like notepad. You can still update them manually ocasionally.

    Other hacky option I’m thinking of: the store reads the version number of the app from somewhere, I guess somewhere from the registry. Try to find the registry value and change that number to something very big. Then the store will think your version is newer and it won’t try to overwrite it. Be careful with the registry.











  • What would we get if we would switch to another arbitrary looking value? Also other units are based on other constants not just the speed of light, so at some conversion you would have to use similar strange numbers, you wouldn’t solve your problem you would just move it to elsewhere.

    And you rarely convert to lightyears, so the strange numbers are outside, and everyday units fit nicely together with base 10.

    And 1 liter or dm3 of water is roughly 1 kg, so the original meter is actually based on the density of water. It’s very convenient that you can convert between weight and length in your head.