Cool, yes everyone knows the US sucks can someone help us who have to live in it now?
Bomb it and start over
No need for bombs. Give them 20-25 years and they will remove the ‘United’ part of The United States on their own and have to start over.
Sorry Europeans, I can’t hear you over my HVAC system with abundant domestic methane reserves.
I wonder what it’s like not living in an air filtered, 70° F environment?
I prefer 70° C
So you have chosen…death
I don’t use windows. I prefer linux
In a world without borders and walls there is no need for windows and gates.
Try not to talk about Linux on Lemmy challenge (impossible): failed.
I wonder if you can tilt windows in Linux
Do I have an article for you: Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing
23.9 degrees is optimal.
Probably Compiz could do that…
Why would you post this while Americans are sleeping? These posts are clearly about flexing on the yanks.
Lite breezes were great maybe 30 yrs ago. With modern heat waves and obesity you gonna sweat like a mofo 'les you figure out how to put an AC up in that tilt.
Jokes on you, average heat wave in Europe is 25C (77 Freedom units)
It’s not the mean that anyone remembers.
From June to August 2022, persistent heatwaves affected parts of Europe with a confirmed death toll of 24,501
The highest temperature recorded was 47.0 °C
Smog does it for me. Can barely ever open my windows to air out, I just get sickly car fumes mixed with rubber and asphalt particulates.
Imagine not having screens in your windows.
This post was made by the flying insects gang.
I’m in the US and have these windows. They have screens. They’re also not that special. I prefer the regular windows
I have these windows in Moscow, Russia since recently (had old windows with separate wooden frames with thick glass made somewhere about 70s, they looked nice though) and like that I can the the sill as a table with laptop and tea and some stuff now, and tilt it instead of moving the laptop aside.
Ah yes, the good old Russian anti-defenestration windows. I assume you have the FSB-mandated variant that is capable of both tilting and swinging, for… ease of access?
My brain had a segfault reading your comment, because the approved ones would obviously not be “anti-defenestration”, but yeah, swinging is nice
Yeah, sorry, my dark sense of humour didn’t combine very well with typing it out before my first cup of coffee.
I was starting to wonder if Europe didn’t have insects, because the hotels I’ve stayed in (in Europe) that had them didn’t have screens for them.
We have civilized insects, they respect our privacy and don’t enter unless they must.
You’re joking but that’s basically it, it’s just not an issue in most places.
Am I the only American with tilting windows? We definitely have them
Or, know, we could just crack open the bottom (in the case of the popular double hung, the top) of the window a little bit. But it is-3c (yes, we Americans understand metric) where I am now, so I have no interest in doing that. No Gulf Stream keeping us relatively mild in winter over here.
Listen, you want to brag about health care, public transit, intercity high speed rail, or historic buildings, fine, you got us there. But stop with the air if superiority about everything else.
Correct me if I am wrong because I really don’t know. But if you crack the bottom open can’t someone just slide the window open?
That isn’t even a concern in a place like Compton (I lived in South Gate which borders Compton and Watts). Because even in places with a lot of violence, you don’t often get someone just coming through a window in the middle of the day if they see it open a crack because it’s pretty easy to defend yourself against someone trying to come through your window.
Now sure, if you leave them open like that at night, it’s a bigger risk. But even then, home invasions mostly happen when no one is at home. Which makes sense.
They would have to break through the screen first. Us Americans prefer not to let bugs in. And if it’s really a worry, there are stops or locks that can be put in. But honestly, it’s nice sometimes. Saved me a locksmith call more than once.
Of course, both windows could just be smashed. You want to tell me European homes are some kind of fortress that thieves can’t get in?
they have a lock that stop them from sliding to far up. un do the lock and they slide all way up. most of one i have seen the lock locks when you pull the window down so you don’t have worry about for getting it.
Unfortunately windows in the UK generally cant tilt, likely since opening them wasn’t really meant to be common anyways (unfortunately climate change is making that more important)
European Window frames are heavy and sturdy, many times with thick wood or metal. The window is double paned, sometimes tripple Most window frames I’ve seen throughout Canada, USA and Mexico, are mostly flimsy aluminium frames that can warp super easily, most of the time with a single window pane in it
As someone with nearly 30 years experience in various types of construction, I can say for a fact that this is objectively incorrect. There’s a trope about any kind of social media content that touches on a subject about which one has real expertise, don’t remember exactly how it goes, but anyhow, let’s just say that the ignorance in this thread is absolutely astonishing.
Go down to your local big box hardware store and try to find a single-pane window, for example. You can’t because nobody makes them. If you want a single-pane window you have to buy a sheet of glass and know how to install and glaze it yourself.
I can’t help but notice Phoenix in your username, you from the south? Because up north, you’d freeze with those kind of windows. Most here are wood or steel framed, and double paned.
I still get frost on the inside of my double paned windows up here in the great white north. No joke, windows are engineered to hell here
Frost on the inside indicates it’s not properly sealed, as far as I seem to recall. But I’m no window expert (I use arch btw).
I can just slide my window up a bit.
What quantifies a bit in this particular case?
Just a tad. Hope that helps, thanks!
Jokes on you, my windows make a light breeze when shut!
this is how we do out here in the heartland
Ah I can hear that rattle now…
What the fuck? This is witchcraft?
That’s funny you lot said the same thing in the 1600’s!
In case of fire, I rather have a window that doesn’t include an instruction manual.
