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I just want to wear as simple an outfit as I can and get away with it without freezing, ok?
Have you considered living in the tropics?
Have you considered Deez Nuts?
learn to open your doors and windows in the nighttime (with bug nets obviously) and keep them closed during the day, nature’s AC.
That works now, but from June to August the nights aren’t all that much cooler and there is rarely any wind either. Still makes sense, but it feels so futile. I am Sisyphus.
I still like to, if I can, because I don’t want old-breath hotboxing CO^2 brain damage. My mom calls this fresh air.
The nights aren’t very cool in some parts of the world.
I wish bug nets for windows (or at all) were standard in Sweden. In some places in the country you will be bitten by 10 thousand mosquitoes just because you dared to open the window for a minute.
I keep my PC in my bedroom so it’s hard in general to keep the room comfortable but in the winter you can at least open the windows for a few seconds and nearly instantly make the room comfortable (and without insects). In the summer it’s fucking impossible to keep the room cool no matter what you do. At least the PC has good cooling so it survives; I just wish I would.
You can install bug nets yourself easily. There are some from tesa, its the net and a roll of velcro-like tape. I love them.
man i wish it was summer already
I’m most cozy at an air temp of like 30°C :( It barely ever gets this hot here in Germany
How about is autumn/spring enjoyers?
Everyone enjoys those. It’s not controversial.
bug repellent, my beloved
Makes sex worse.
You didn’t want to mate with that mantis anyway, trust me, bro. I’ve got your back.
I have an in-window AC that runs on full blast at night in the summers on top of my whole-house AC. 58 degrees FTabsoluteW.
Wow Exxon loves you
For now…solar panels are going in soon, which should more than cover it
Not gonna do shit at night.
I bought a battery for mine but you’re about to find how just how much power your AC system uses.
I know exactly how much it uses, I still have a regular electric bill.
In relation to how much power you’re going to make.
Are you buying batteries? Unless you’re buying a whole lot of them ($$$) you’re not even making it one night running your AC like that.
I spent $10k on a whole home battery and it got me 1/3 of my average daily power use.
I stress average because summers were double that, sometimes 2.6x.
I spent $10k on a whole home battery and it got me 1/3 of my average daily power use.
Good thing you have a sun for most of the other 2/3.
I don’t know where you are from, but I’ve been to the US a couple of times and I can understand why the AC power bill can be absurd there. You cannot keep, in August, in the middle of the desert, AC at 18°C when outside there are 35-40°C. It’s criminal on so many levels.
I had a layover in Atlanta last summer and I got home sick, so much was the air conditioning in the airport and in shops and restaurants. Outside it was proper sweating hot, inside I was freezing while wearing a hoodie. I’ve been on a bus where the driver was wearing a heavy jacket, in August, and all because the bus AC was set to something like 15°C. What is wrong with Americans?
Keep AC at 25-27°C, remove all blankets and clothes when you go to sleep, and I bet you it will consume a lot less energy. Unless you live in the Death Valley, in which case, good luck.
This was in west Texas so yeah, basically desert.
I fully agree - every thread like this has people coming out of the woodwork claiming they’d simply die if their house isn’t =< 65f. Maybe it’s because we’re so fat?
25c/77f is a perfectly reasonable temperature to have your house at. If I lived alone, it’d be 78 in the summer.
exxon fucking HATES heat pumps, they want everyone to live in the coldest winter burning fossil fuels to survive.
Wow. I am impressed from where I sit, in a house with the AC set to 66F, sometimes 65, to save energy vs where we might otherwise set it.
People consider 70 ideal, don’t they? So 65 is only a saving in winter, you would set a higher temperature than ideal in summer
I bet you also sleep with a heavy blanket as if it were winter.
I got sick last time I was in the US cause everywhere was like 16°C while outside was like 30-35°C. What’s your problem, people?
I set my AC to 26°C (79°F) in summers. As far as I know, most people in my country do somewhere between 20 and 26°C (68~79°F).
Another reason would be you can’t use heavier blankets in summer
I quickly acclimate to either, but it’s not fun. Low 50f/10C is very comfortable to me by late January while 90f/32C is fine in July. It’s the damn December and May that are hell.
10°C is fine in sunlight or still air. If there’s a breeze it is cold. Great cycling weather though, you can dump so much heat and barely need gloves
This is a silly thing to argue over because we don’t get to pick seasons and have to live through the one currently on.
You can however move to a hotter/colder climate. You don’t need to suffer the climate you don’t enjoy if you’re willing to suffer the consequence
If you can’t pick seasons you just need to pick yourself up by the bootstraps. No reason anybody can’t pick seasons.
Maybe you don’t
I would hardly run the AC if the hottest it got in summertime in Oklahoma City was 90°F. But last year, we had several instances where it got up to 100 or 105. And the dew point was 70-75 degrees all summer. So your sweat hardly evaporates. I run my AC all day to keep it 80 degrees and swampy indoors.
I would love to redo my whole house’s HVAC system where one smallish central unit cools the kitchen and living room and each of the bedrooms have their own ductless mini split. This is one way to achieve zoning. There’s no reason to cool the entire house to 65 degrees if I’m about to be asleep in the bedroom for the next 8 hours. There’s no reason to try to keep the whole house cool when I’m about to spend my day in my home office. Just cool the room I’m in and leave the rest alone.
I could also do window units, but for some reason, my wife is vehemently opposed to them. Her parents just put window units in all their bedrooms and one in their living room. They don’t use the central unit anymore. They only cool the room they’re in right now, and their power bills went from $400 to $150 in summer. They paid for themselves in one season.
Closing vents and doors helps.
You shouldn’t. Blocking vents is bad for your blower motor as your constricting the system and putting unwanted wear on the blower motor.
You can do it. But you may end up damaging your hvac system and wearing out some parts much faster then normal.
I have two types of vents:
- floor vents - to send central heat to all the rooms
- Ceiling vents - to send inside air outside
I can’t see any problem with closing one of those types of vent
Again you’re constraining your blower motor by doing so. It’s added wear and tear. It won’t break over night but you will require repairs faster then if you didn’t touch the vents.
Do want you want. It’s your property. But this is similar to someone constantly leaning on their breaks when they are driving.
I think you misread my comment. I wasn’t talking about closing vents attached to a blower
What other vents could you possibly be talking about if not hvac vents?
Window units are loud AF.
Running a dehumidifier has been the best thing I’ve ever done though. I believe I’m from a more humid environment though.
Autumn lovers >>> all other seasons
It’s my favorite season, except this past year it was rarely ever cool. Winter was better this year. I feel like that’s only going too become more true as we go on.
It’s barely a season though. Summer and winter are months long. Any place that actually gets something akin to autumn anymore, itonly lasts for like a few weeks. If that. There are two seasons: summer and winter. They just have barely discernible transition periods which more often than not amount to a few days of back and forth weather, from nice for a day or two, back to the previous seasons temps, then lurching forward to the next, then back and forth with some median-“season” days mixed in mid swing.
Thanks Shell, Exxon, BP, Koch industries, Lockheed, et al
Sounds like climate change alright!
Yep, they fucked up the planet just to make more money. I’d rather buy an NFT made by an AI than give those people another penny, if I had a choice in the matter
throwback to the almost summer temperatures back in january, and now snow just a week ago in april, i love this timeline.
Don’t forget the forest fire smoke!
Summer Enjoyers when they get 8th degree burns on their face after they pass out onto the concrete from heat exhaustion.
i love wearing my slutty clothes tho
i see 20 year old gals bare legged in winter and wish i was that courageous with my sluttiness
Tougher than the troops!
