How Madagascar came to supply the world's vanilla

Vanilla originated in the Americas.  Here is how Madagascar came to be the world's largest supplier of this expensive spice (second most expensive in the world!).

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/madagascar-vanilla

5 lines to put in every .vimrc (from Hacker News)

set hlsearch    " highlight all search results
set ignorecase  " do case insensitive search 
set incsearch   " show incremental search results as you type
set number      " display line number
set noswapfile  " disable swapfile

Ref: https://swordandsignals.com/2020/12/13/5-lines-in-vimrc.html 

vDOS, an alternative to DOSBox

DOSBox is wonderful software.

But try vDOS, another DOS emulator which can run on Windows 10 32/64-bit.  Use it to run WordPerfect for DOS!

Try PotPlayer, an alternative to VLC

PotPlayer is a viable alternative to VLC.  It is feature-rich and I prefer its UI.  VLC is a great program, but give PotPlayer a try.

http://potplayer.daum.net/

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font for low vision readers

It is like Helvetica, but better.  Free!

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont

hMailServer

A free and lightweight SMTP, POP and IMAP server for Windows.

https://www.hmailserver.com/download

Here's an article on how to set it up.

You'll be able to quickly setup a simple SMTP server on a LAN for securely relaying email with hMailServer.

Prio - Get granular control over Windows processes

Change the priority of a process, on the fly, with this small but effective Windows utility.  It also allows you to do 'silent elevation' for processes that always ask for UAC.

https://www.prnwatch.com/prio/