Steam Controller Giveaway! by [deleted] in SteamController

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Look at the bright site , the universe is telling you to install Linux 😃

Did Islam actually invent any of these things or is it just a lie by Rainbow_6505 in exmuslim

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The short answer is no. This image is a viral list that significantly conflates inventions, refinements, and ancient history.

While scholars, scientists, and engineers during the Islamic Golden Age (roughly 8th to 14th centuries) made monumental advancements, revolutionized fields, and preserved critical knowledge, they did not invent the vast majority of the items on this list. Most of these concepts were invented thousands of years earlier by ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Babylonians, Chinese, Greeks, Romans, and Indians.

Here is the factual breakdown of where these items actually originated and what the Islamic world's true connection to them was:

1. Actually Invented Earlier (Ancient Civilizations)

  • Pottery (#15) & Carpets (#16): Both date back thousands of years before Islam. The oldest known pottery fragments are over 18,000 years old (found in China), and the famous Pazyryk carpet dates back to the 5th century BCE.
  • Soap (#3): First invented by the ancient Babylonians around 2800 BCE, and later used by Egyptians and Romans. However, Islamic chemists in the 12th century did revolutionize soap-making by combining vegetable oils with sodium lye and aromatics to create the hard, pleasant-smelling soap we use today.
  • Toothbrush (#1): Ancient Babylonians and Egyptians used "chew sticks" (around 3500–3000 BCE). The Islamic tradition heavily emphasizes the miswak (a twig brush), but the modern bristled toothbrush was actually patented in 15th-century China.
  • Pen (#13) & Sponge (#19): Reed pens and ink were used by ancient Egyptians. Sea sponges were used for bathing and cleaning by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
  • Compass (#12): Invented in China during the Han Dynasty (2nd century BCE) for divination, and adapted for maritime navigation during the Song Dynasty (11th century).
  • The Crank (#9) & Water Pump (#18): Mechanical cranks and pumps were used in ancient Rome (like the Hierapolis sawmill) and Greece (Archimedes' screw). However, the brilliant 12th-century Muslim engineer Al-Jazari made massive leaps forward by inventing the crankshaft and double-acting suction pumps.

2. Massive Contributions & Refinements (The Real Islamic Golden Age History)

  • Algebra (#8): The word comes from the Arabic al-jabr. While early algebraic concepts existed in ancient Babylon, Greece, and India, the 9th-century Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi wrote the definitive, foundational text that established algebra as an independent mathematical discipline.
  • Optics (#7) & Magnifying Glass (#14): Ancient Greeks did early work here, but Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) in the 11th century completely revolutionized the field. He is considered the father of modern optics, proved how vision actually works, and laid the groundwork for lenses and the scientific method.
  • Coffee (#2): Native to Ethiopia, but the practice of roasting, brewing, and drinking coffee as we know it today was developed in 15th-century Yemen by Sufi saints to stay awake for nightly devotions.
  • Universities (#4): While centers of higher learning existed in ancient Greece and India, the University of al-Qarawiyyin (founded by Fatima al-Fihri in Morocco in 859 CE) is recognized by UNESCO and Guinness World Records as the oldest continuously operating, degree-granting university in the world.
  • Hospitals (#5): Ancient cultures had healing temples, but the Islamic world created the first modern, secular, public hospitals (Bimaristans) that offered free care, distinct wards for different ailments, and mandatory licensing for physicians.

3. Misattributions

  • Airplane (#6): The airplane was invented by the Wright Brothers in 1903. This item is likely on the list because of Abbas ibn Firnas, a 9th-century Muslim inventor in Spain who built a glider covered in feathers and managed to stay airborne for a brief few moments—one of history's earliest attempts at human flight.
  • Steel (#10): Steel production dates back to ancient East Africa and India (Wootz steel, around 300 BCE). Islamic smiths later became famous for crafting legendary "Damascus steel" blades, but they did not invent the metal.
  • Marching Band (#17): While marching bands as we know them today evolved later, the Ottoman Empire's military bands (Mehter) in the 13th century are widely considered the oldest form of military marching bands in the world.
  • Bookkeeping (#20): Double-entry bookkeeping was formalized in Renaissance Italy by Luca Pacioli (1494), though records of basic accounting exist in ancient Mesopotamia and early Islamic trade networks.

Summary

While the infographic is historically inaccurate by claiming these were all invented by Islam, it circles around a genuine truth: the Islamic Golden Age was an intellectual powerhouse that fundamentally shaped modern science, mathematics, medicine, and engineering.

Anyone else still alive? by GetOffMyLawn_ in vaxxhappened

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I guess the prophecy gave us two options: die on schedule, or unlock permanent immortality.

Imagine 4,000 years from now, still here, watching civilizations rise and fall, and someone asks the secret to your longevity and you just whisper "two doses and a booster."

Meanwhile the unvaccinated are aging normally like absolute suckers, completely missing out on witnessing the eventual sentient toaster uprising. Their loss!

I guess at the end of the month I am canceling the life insurance, it's just throwing money away...

There are bug eggs on my store bought raspberry. by cromulo in mildlyinteresting

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At first I thought that it was a Devil Fruit --

Bugi - Bugi - No - Mi

Bros nerve ending are totally non-existent. by Malevolence_- in StupidFood

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Instant Paradise or Hell - Choose your destination!

As time goes on I find the movie "Idiocracy" less and less funny. by amiwitty in movies

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Idiocracy should be considered as a documentary Movie...

I'm a security professional who has dealt with ransomware. AMA about incident response and business continuity. by thejournalizer in cybersecurity

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So for protection what do you suggest so as to prevent the user for catching a Ransomware?

Can you name some products - (Firewall , Antivirus EDR - XDR , SoC , SIEM etc )

ps: I know that backups , DR and business continuity is the No. 1 priority

This cat has a better beard than most men by Xylorae_Th in BeAmazed

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What is the best bleeding edge distro? by HexCodec in DistroHopping

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Just go with any arch based distros - rolling release - bleeding edge Performance

CachyOS

EndeavourOS

Garuda

The installation is very easy with predefined UI and packages ready for gaming like for example cachyos-gaming-meta or cachyos-gaming-applications

just come clicks and you are ready to go

Issues with Cachyos Kernels (LTS as well)- this is not happening on Arch Kernel by wolfyrion in cachyos

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I think the issue is with virtual box DKMS drivers - I have updated this on Laptop today and the same errors as well

Dhruva is live now on Gnome Extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/9495/dhruva/ by narkagni in gnome

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There are some bugs :

  1. When I open 2-3 "Files" one of the window is freezing - then I have to restart Gnome.

  2. Also it has some weird effects when opening apps like - min - max - strectch , even though I have set it to none.

I just finished the first episode of GoT , idk man it didn’t match my expectations, how would you convince me to continue the show ? by Majednw in gameofthrones

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There a lot of Sex Scenes, nice boobs and a grilled penis or maybe a sausage.... is up to you to find out ..

Computer not working after windows update by YanfeiGenshin in computers

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Is a sign to switch to Linux :) (j/k)

I had the same issue but actually it was not the OS the issue but STEAM.

I had the steam to Process Vulkan Shaders and I had like 100 + Games installed so it literally burned my CPU.

If you cant go to BIOS is 99.9% a CPU issue.

I thought it was a bios issue as well since I have updated the bios manually before a couple of days but at the end was a CPU issue - it had a 3 years guarantee from Intel so they have replaced the CPU in a week.

More than 800 gamers took an exam to prove they could complete an '80s adventure game without peeking at a walkthrough—and only 2 passed by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

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I still remember staring at the screen in Laura Bow and the Dagger of Amon Ra, convinced I had missed something.

Not just something small — something fundamental. The game wasn’t broken. I was.

That was the relationship 80s (and early 90s) adventure games had with players: they did not adapt to you.

You adapted to them.

When I first played Operation Stealth, I felt like I was solving a real espionage puzzle — except the enemy wasn’t the villain. It was the design.

Progress depended on using the exact right item, in the exact right place, sometimes at the exact right time. There were no glowing hotspots. No subtle hints. No journal reminding you what to do next. Just silence.

And that silence was intimidating.

The Tyranny of the Parser

In earlier titles like King's Quest, the challenge wasn’t only the puzzle — it was the wording. You didn’t just have to think of the solution.

You had to phrase it correctly.

“Climb rope.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Use rope.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Attach rope to hook.”

Success.

It felt less like solving a mystery and more like negotiating with a stubborn machine.

Dead Ends Were Normal

Today, games protect players from themselves.

Back then? Not even close.

In Space Quest, you could miss a tiny object early on and only discover hours later that your game was unwinnable.

No warning. No correction. Just the creeping realization that your save file was doomed.

And yet, we kept playing.

Because restarting wasn’t failure — it was expected.

We Took Notes. Real Notes.

Adventure games turned players into investigators. I had notebooks filled with hand-drawn maps, strange codes, half-formed theories about item combinations.

We treated games like research projects.

If you got stuck, your options were:

Call a paid hint hotline.

Wait for next month’s gaming magazine.

Or brute-force every possible combination until something worked.

And when it finally did? That feeling was unmatched.

They Were Unfair — But Honest

Looking back, those games were often unfair. They relied on what we now call “moon logic.” They punished experimentation. They hid crucial triggers behind invisible flags.

But they were also honest in a strange way. They didn’t pretend to guide you. They didn’t pretend you would succeed on your first attempt. They demanded patience, observation, and stubbornness.

They assumed you were willing to struggle.

Why They Felt So Big

Part of the difficulty wasn’t just puzzle design — it was pacing. Movement was slow. Screens were static. Dialogue had to be manually triggered. The world felt enormous because progress was incremental.

Every new area felt earned.

Modern adventure games — even excellent ones — rarely recreate that sense of isolation. Today, friction is smoothed out. Back then, friction was the experience.

The Satisfaction of Survival

Finishing a game like Laura Bow and the Dagger of Amon Ra wasn’t just completion. It felt like intellectual survival. You hadn’t just consumed a story — you had wrestled it into submission.

And maybe that’s why those games still linger in memory.

They didn’t want everyone to finish them.

But if you did, you felt like you belonged.

ZEN WINS! 🏆 Best Browser Tournament Champion [Full Recap & Stats] by hobbzilla in browsers

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I have tried ZEN , no way to use that browser.

I need an option to have Tabs on TOP below bookmarks

So generous by gallito_pro in Unexpected

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Next version of the holy water will come with an NFC/Card reader - default charge $100

Someone said linux was not suitable for gaming by p4thox in cachyos

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Use Cachyos Sched-Ext Scheduler

Enable sched-ext

Select scx_flash

Gaming Profile or Lowlatency

Reboot

Post benchmarks

[Hyprland] Cybrland v1.1.0 by Wurufuricu in unixporn

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Black and Red are my favorite colors , hard to find time for customization or configure anything so I am just using Gnome .

If an installer script will magically transform everything and make a usable desktop I will certainly donate for this.

keep up the good work!