Today you chose violence
Should’ve installed linux 🤷
Should’ve installed velux
Velux just gone through the roof!
I am referring to Linux as ‘tilted Windows’ from now on and you can’t stop me.
No, Mac is tilted Windows, and Linux is open Windows.
I tried finding a company who sold those windows in my city here in the USA and failed.
You need to go through a window company and have them custom-made. They’ll come over to your house and take measurements then build them at their factory and then install them. It will take a few weeks and will be expensive, but for my money it’s worth it.
Where I live Andersen is probably the best as they come with a forever warranty on everything including the glass itself, but they may or may not be in your area. There are plenty of other reputable companies as well. Again, this is not a cheap option.
Thank you. I’ll look into that option
It’s not like our windows don’t open, they just don’t tilt. I frequently open the windows and get a breeze going when it’s nice outside!
With the weather outside today in my Australian town a nice 24°C temperature I have a window at each end of the house open.
At one end of the house the window tilts (bottom out), the window at the other end other slides.
The sliding window has much more space — half of the viewing area — open to the breeze than the tilting
Yes, but it’s an inferior breeze.
What does that even mean?
In America we have to keep our windows closed to keep out the fent smoke and bullets.
your walls won’t save you from the latter tho
Bullets are not ghosts, they can’t go through walls, stupid
I think it’s a joke that American houses (in the eyes of Europeans) are made out of sticks (stud framing in the house) and paper (drywall is made from gypsum and has a paper backing)
In European countries, their houses are made of tougher materials like stone, concrete, or some other material I’m forgetting about
It’s a known thing in America that stray bullets end up in people’s houses (and sometimes their residents) when it’s an American holiday like 4th of July or Memorial Day
America tends to build with the cheapest materials. So wood framed houses are clad in wood or plastic
Australia copied a lot from America. Our houses also are wood framed, but we use brick cladding and concrete tile roofs
New tech is more available now. If I were to build today it would be out of foamed plastic and reinforced concrete (as insulated concrete forms). And I’d use tilt/swing windows
yeah in some states like the Tornado Alley or California (earthquakes) ig that might actually make more sense since sometimes such materials might withstand more force than brick
Not an issue in Australia, but I bet brick stops or slows bullets more than wood
Our brick construction doesn’t do well in earthquakes. If a roof is going to fall on you, you don’t want it made of tiles
They can go through shitty Amrrican drywall
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If bullets can go through drywall then why am I allowed to shoot anyone who enters my home? That would clearly be dangerous /s
Rifle rounds will go right through brick too unless they’re as wide as cinder blocks and filled. Shit’s scary.
another brutalism W :hoxha:
Ah, but that classic wood-on-wood sliding window, where all that stands between a destructive crash is an irreplaceable rope installed inside walls when the house was built.
They aren’t that difficult to repair if you have basic carpentry skills. All you have to do is take the sash out and open the side of the frame and you’ll have access to the weight and pulley. They’re designed to be pretty easy to do. YouTube probably has hundreds of videos on it. You just want to be careful about lead paint if it’s an old house and you’re producing dust or disturbing old paint.
How well do these work in strong winds? Wouldn’t they just turn your light breeze into a strong breeze?
Put a screen in that fancy window and then we’ll talk.
There are screens for tilt windows. You put them on the outside instead of the inside.
Yeah, but most places in Europe don’t have screens regardless.
True that!
American with these windows. I have screens. I also don’t like them very much.
Yeah who the hell wants moths and mosquitoes in their house
There are no mosquitoes in the UK. And moths are rare. Would be lucky to see a fly.
There are definitely mosquitos in the UK. They piss me off every summer.
It is truly bizarre how Europeans never use screens, make it make sense!!
We had them in Italy. But we also didn’t have these weird windows. Also stop acting like Europe is a small town on an island.
Its not like the few mosquitoes we have would be smart enough to enter my room through the sides of a lightly tilted window.
You just reminded of the time when I used to live in Germany. I had my window tilted open for a few hours that day, and when i was going to bed I found the biggest fucking spider I’ve ever seen right next to my fucking pillow! Why is no one talking about how big the spiders get in Bavaria?! It’s ridiculous! Those bastards get huge! Nothing compared to what i currently see where I live in the US.
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.
Imagine being a European and having your head so far up your own ass you start to disappear
I love EU windows, and i looked at them when i redid my windows recently… but i just couldn’t justify the increase i price.
Of course, my windows are horizontal sliders
Over here in the USA, we “tilt” our windows on a vertical access, minimizing the effort involved to friction. We call it “opening” the window, because ergonomically it’s identical to opening a door.
Tilting you windows is a nice option that i rarely use. Most if the time its STOẞLÜFTEN as we germans like to say (opening the windows wide up to really let in all the fresh air).
Is that not something that Americans do too? As far as I know the need for STOSSLÜFTEN is because we’re building our buildings so air tight, that there is little circulation.
Yeah, being able to open the window just slightly from a different angle doesn’t seem like that useful of a feature. Also in the US we mostly have a different style of window (see below).
It’s rare that I want to open a window, but only slightly open it. Normally it’s all the way open and I probably put box fan in the window to pull air through.
You’re correct that many houses these days are built too air tight, but for older houses that were built before AC the house was often designed so that you could open windows on different sides of the house to create a cross breeze. So for example, you could open up windows on the East and West side in the morning and the temperature difference should create a convection breeze through the house.
many houses these days are built too air tight,
No such thing. You just have to make sure you use a proper ERV setup.
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
Probably Compiz could do that…
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.
I visited Bosten before, and if i can remember it right. Some of their windows can do that
