I hate Windows

Haha I feel you!

Perhaps try to be a bit less extreme in your language in front of your parents - or offer them a bet: if a CO2 monitor is yellow or red at the evening they pay for it and you can air whenever it's getting yellow. If it stays green you pay for it and shut up about the windows!

It’s most likely a medical issue

Spring into early summer and autumn. In the summer, I may open them early on, but it's best not to let the crazy humidity in.

Their usage of building was a generic term of building. Not meaning apartment complex.

If you were opening the window and they have the AC on that’s more expensive that will piss people off. Same if they have the furnace running and you have the window open the winter that will piss people off. As one other poster suggested it might be a humidity issue. During the winter try adding some humidity to the air in your room and see if that helps. Not a lot of humidity just small amounts and keep incrementing and see if it helps.

There are also other medical reasons that could be affecting this. A medical doctor might help. Be warned on the medical doctor, though every medical doctor medical professional has a small Toolbox to work with. And they tend to get blinders. So you may have to do a fair amount of research yourself.

Our place is ventilated well enough that I don't need to open the windows for ventilation or to manage humidity per se, but I am fortunate enough to live in an area with good quality air, so I often do in spring/summer/fall just because it feels fresher.

In winter, I don't want to freeze or waste energy, so I usually keep them closed. But once in a while, if I have my computer running for a long time and the heat is also on for the rest of our place, I may crack the window a bit just to keep that room from becoming unbearably hot.

Joke:

"How did the Russian dissident survive the assassination attempt?"

"He went to an Apple Store"

(Sorry if this joke is dumb lol)

I live on the Chesapeake Bay, so during the late spring into late Fall, I open my windows pretty much daily on the weekends and whenever I am home during the week.

Only close them if it's raining

Central heating, no AC.

Heat is not carried by air, but by those pipes with hot water running to radiators... so I don't know if there's any airflow.

Built before 1978, might have lead paint under there... but it was painted over once before we moved in so its probably lead safe(? I hope lol, i'd be lame to lose a few iq points to something stupid like lead)

I try to keep windows open as much as possible. I also struggle with breathing when they are closed. During winter tho it’s a struggle. My mom gets furious when I turn the radiator on and set it to anything above level 2 and she never ups hers above level 1. So I’m suffocating and freezing. Sometimes I gotta turn the fan on for a half hour just to get some relief.

They're definitely not going to run out of oxygen. They might experience mild symptoms from elevated carbon dioxide or allergens.

Never, I switched to Debian…

Mostly just the spring and fall, but occasionally the summer if it’s nice out and rarely the winter if it is unseasonably nice. Sometimes crack a window for a short time if the toddler makes a really smelly bm

Where I live, there's usually 3-4 months out of the year that it's better to open the windows to let the air in than to use central air. Cheaper as well. In the winter we usually get a day or two where it's warm enough to open up to let air circulate. But swamp ass summer and deep winter here suck eggs to be opening the windows.

How old is stoßlüften? I know people that are always opening windows and telling their kids to go outside to "blow the stink off" and while they have german ancestry it would be from over a hundred years ago.

I never open Windows regardless of season.

I like the fresh scent of Mint in my house instead.

Never of course. Don’t know exactly what Winter and Summer mean, some desktop environments maybe? And what is fresh air?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HNq-De_wCx0

In the winter, Stoßlüften, especially to get moisture out in winter, to reduce and clear out condensed water on windows and prevent mold. I guess bathroom after a shower more than other rooms either way. In the summer, full night, none during the day.

Sometimes not for a few days, sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes open all day. Depends on the season and a few other things.

This foreigner made a video out of their experience

(I was looking for a different one I thought they made, but this is where I ended up.)

Honestly. I used to always keep my window open* over the night. This winter was the first I have regularly not opened my window and just opened it for a bit during the day (yes stoßlüften), which I of course did before as well, since I'm German 😅

* when I say "open" I mean my window would usually be tilted open ("gekippt") not fully opened wide

Almost never. I lived in a bad neighborhood for too long, so I doubt that habit will change.

Rarely, I just have my AC on to make it hot or cold and the solar panels make it almost free.

Window open means bugs get in, and they tend to like lights like my computer screen and I'm sick of cleaning bug goo off the screen.

I got a Technoline WL1030 meter for my room and whenever it reaches 1500 ppm CO2 I open the window until its back down below about 600-700, then I close it to not waste more heat than necessary

Edit: To give some more context, my room is 14 m^2 and about 2.50m high so roughly 35 m^3 of air minus some occupied by furniture call it 30 m^3 maybe. It is a modern house with good insulation and energy retention rating (built to the "Minergie" standard we have here in Switzerland), but without forced air, so not much air is exchanged when the windows are closed. With this I end up roughly having to exchange the air every three hours or so.

Only when it's cold. Windows are open most of the year.

When we taste the air is a bit a stale, we open the all the windows and sliding doors to exchange the air during all seasons.

I find that I need to open them 2-3 times a day.

I open them when humidity goes above 60% in my room, and keep it open until it reaches under 50.

This usually means opening them 2-3 times daily.

Otherwise I get the same suffocating feeling.

This definitely varies by region.

fresh scent of Mint

Oh you...

xD this is the best Linux joke by far.

(You did make a Linux joke and it's not a coincidence right?)

bad neighborhood

I remember when I was in China we used to have 防盗网 ("Anti-Theft Nets") all over our windows... I mean it also prevents us kids from falling out of windows I guess.

I remember my old apartment in Guangzhou, there was a sofa next the the window, the TV is on the opposide of the sofa. And behind the sofa was the window, that looked down straight to the alleyway (not a street, cars can't get in, the main road is like 10-20 minutes of walking distance away)...

Like sometimes as kids you play around and climb the sofa and then the top of the sofa (like the thing where you lean you back against) is the same height of the window.

So you could accidentally play around and if the window was open, you could, you know how kids be, peek out the window out of curiousity and fall out and die.

Like the only thing standing in the way is the Anti-Theft Net thingy.

This is what it looks like (random image found online):

I was always told to "be careful or you can fall out of there and DIE" and jeez... kid-me got so terrified of heights.

The stairs also have a bare-minimum concrete/cement barrier, you can get drunk, accidentally hop over it, and fall down to your death...

Come to think of it you could literally murder someone and pretend they accidentally fell. (Russian Dissidents have joined the chat 👀)

I remember when I visited one of my aunts apartment... it was like 16 floors high in the middle of Manhattan... OMG I got so scared... but I wanna look outside the window but I immediately just feel like I have a panic attack like "OMG what if I fall out?"...

I remember having a sleepover there with my family and literally every moment awake I was like Window = Scary

But yea I asked my parents "why not install those like we had in China", but apparantly most cities in the US have city ordinances against these things, you need a permit for it... and then since it's not the norm in the US, you'd just get targeted since people would think: "Ooh they must be rich / hiding a lot of valuables" so yea we don't have those anti-theft nets here in the US.

Window open means bugs get in

No window screens? 🤔

I thought that was the standard for every window... never even saw a window without the window screen thing

German here: yes. 24/7

LÜFTEN

Spain, in winter at least 15 minutes in the morning after waking up and 15 minutes in the evening. In Summer I try not to open the windows during the day only at night because I will be naked alive otherwise

Paris here, we sleep usually windows (slightly) open, yes even now in winter

Windows open just a bit in winter is wonderful. Such good sleep!

I open the windows during winter even when it's like -30c, at some point the air gets stale and circulation is needed. The stuffy air also makes my headspace feel weird, like something is irritating me but I can't tell what it is.

Then at some point I open the windows, I also run a huge fan to circulate air around.

I'm sorry, I don't get it. I feel dumb lol.

Russian dissidents often "mysteriously" "fall out of a window" and its commonly speculated that the FSB shoved them out of the window.

The joke is that an "Apple Store" wouldn't have any "Windows" because they only have Macs so the FSB couldn't shove them out of a window.

(yes I know they have VX and Polonium, but then that ruins the joke)

Ohhhhhhh. I should have gotten that. That's pretty funny. Thank you! Unfortunately for Mr. Putin I am a Linux user.

My building is on an old chiller system, so my AC is off ~5 months out of the year. My windows are open the entire time, and I usually have fans set up too to try and keep things cool.

When my AC is on, absolutely never. It is hot here like 7 months out of the year.

A lot less than I want and need to. My social anxiety is ridiculous with small stuff like this, just opening the windows easily gives me anxiety because I hear people outside. It sucks but I often manage to do it for a while before I have visitors, just so the air fresher.

Austrian here: STOSSLÜFTEN!

I rarely ever open windows unless someone asks me to. I get a lot of complaints during the summer of how hot it is indoors, but I adore the heat.

I adore the heat

Satan is that you?

Whenever it's vomfy

Stoßlüften!!

(aside from rooms having ac, those don't need it)

I've been called a great many things over the millenia and that is one yes

In the winter I have no control over the heat. My radiator has a direct line to the pits of hell. So the windows are open all winter long. They are open in the spring and fall as long as the temp inside will be comfortable. Closed in the summer because AC.

Better than being naked dead I guess.

During winter, having them open for any significant time would risk plumbing freezing. During summer, it's usually a matter of opening them at night so the coolness lasts through the day.

Autocorrect from burned alive, naked alive is already the reality in summer lol