I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while. I saw a comment a month or so ago. Person said they keep their thermostat at like 65 in the winter and 78 in the summer. 78 seems fucking insane to me. That’s too damn hot for inside. How do you sleep at 78 degrees?
Are they a lizard person or am I a baby?
Edit 1: I love all the comments on this! Never thought this post would create such discussion. Looking at the comments vs upvotes it honestly seems 50/50ish that 78 is hot for the indoors. Can lemmy do polls?
If I’m paying the bills the AC is set to 72 in the summer and the heat is set to 66 in the winter.
If I’m not paying the bills the AC is set to 66 when it’s hot and the heat is set to 72 when it’s cold.
64/78 year round. Occasionally knock it down to 74 in the summer when it’s going to be really hot and the AC unit may not keep up.The house retains heat too well and bakes in the evening sun.
23-25 in the winter (depends on humidity), switched off in the summer.
21 during the day and at bedtime 15
I set it to 291K.
Not sure what that is in feet-degrees or miles or whatever you guys use in Murca.
Edit: changed to CAPITAL K, you nerds.
Edit 2: removed the degree symbol!
There’s no such thing as a degree Kelvin. It’s just 291K.
Lol changed
Excellent. I’m making my high school physics teacher proud.
That’s about 523.8 °R. I prefer 531.67 °R
HERETIC
Oh, my bad… I meant to say 0.19825 °N
Kelvins are abbreviated to capital K
Thanks, changed.
291 kilo what?
Haha nice. Out-nerded again.
I have mine at 20~22°C. Not sure what that is in non-standard units… honestly I’d go lower, but then it becomes a hassle for other reasons
Double it and subtract one tenth of the doubled number then add 32. That makes your range 68-72.
And that’s a good range
Cheap Canadian here…
18C in cold months and down to 15C at night.
Warm months I have central air but don’t turn it on and just live with whatever the temp is.
Yes, 65F for the winter or lower, I hate the heater, and yes, 78F in summer, the heat pump struggles and it’s plenty cool enough, feels cool compared to outside.
ETA I grew up in Florida without air conditioning. No central air until I was 24, sometimes window units. And at school no air conditioning till 7th grade and they kept it fucking FREEZING in that school so you would be going always from hot outside to so cold inside, it was worse than none.
People absolutely can adapt to the humidity and heat but buildings do not, they hold up so much better with the central air drying them out.
Grew up in a house with no AC in the summer. Would easily hit high 80s inside during the day and hover in the lower 80s or high 70s at night.
You learn how to deal with it. Use fans to bring cooler air in at night. Close up windows and curtains (especially south-facing blinds) during the day. Hydrate frequently. At night, strip down as far as comfortable, use just a sheet instead of a blanket, and have a fan to circulate air. AC is a relatively new invention, people have been living longer in hotter areas without it. 78 degrees should literally be “no sweat”.
Dry climates will let you set the temp higher in the summer since your body will cool better.
I have solar/battery and heat pumps so I set my temp to whatever makes my SO happy.
-40 so I don’t have to specify which temperature scale I’m using.
Cool to 25, heat to 20 (Canberra, Australia)
23 in a lot of the winter (though I think the thermostat is wrong since that gets us to 20.x or 21 according to actual thermometers in the room) and usually 26 in ‘dry’ mode in the summer. Right now, we’re going for days without using them at all but, if not the heat, then the humidity will put an end to that by late May or early June.
69F (20.5C) year-round. Just for the memes.
It started out as ha-ha-funny-number because my college roommates kept setting the thermostat there to be funny but then it just become a comfortable temperature to exist at
AC only goes on when it’s 90 out. Used it 5 times last year. People can adapt. It’s like cutting sugar from your diet.
That really depends on the humidity. I can take a desert 90F or even 100F all day without AC without issue but 80F temps with a 70F dew point absolutely kills me. I lived in my area without AC for years. I never got used to it, I just stopped functioning when it got hot and muggy.
Sans humidity being like 85% its fine… trying that when it’s 85+ and humidity to match, you’ll melt.
How is it like cutting sugar from your diet
It’s the same thing in that both cutting sugar from your diet and living inside a 90°F/32°C box both take all possibility of joy out of your life
