The old one also sounds like a running lawnmower, but still.

This funny meme is also a good example of survivorship bias. There are both good and shitty ACs from both eras. We're just only comparing to the good old ACs because the shitty ones already broke.

Air conditioner then: 2 kilowatts / ton

Air conditioner now: 0.4 kilowatts / ton

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You forgot about the part where it is 70% asbestos and radioactive coolant. 10/10 best ACs ever.

That old, toxic refrigerant just hit different

Weird my mini split is a workhorse. It doesn't give two shits about dust, dirt, ice, rain, or snow. It has heated the house in single digits and cooled the house in triple digits (both F). 10/10. Best $1800 I ever spent.

But the first needs at least two power lines to work.

I can't believe we had AC in our 80s suburban home and now in "the future" our condo is hot as Satan's spinchter and the best I can find is a pathetic thing that looks like WALL-E's girlfriend attached to a clothes drier vent. If you get five feet away from it you're dying.

German here, I don't get that joke. What the fuck's an Air Conditioner? Some time of specail air you put in your hair after using shampoo?

My old AC works great. I just wish I could hear other things while it's running.

We need to figure out how to retrofit those old machines to be as efficient as the new ones, and be clean and pigeon free. Then we can keep them around.

We missed out on the freon black market that's consumed by cyborg men in vans.

Which air conditioner are you talking about specifically that shuts off when it gets dust on its filter?

Planned Obsolesce!

Yes the older models are the little engine that could. (come to think of it most of you are too young to get that reference). The expensive big one threw a belt and became useless after four years.

But I moved to a place where I'm on the shady side of the building and as a result all I need are fans.

I miss my old really noisy air conditioner window unit. I loved the noise from it, it drowned out other sounds and I got better sleep. My room air filters generate some decent white noise effects, but it's just not the same.

Firefox is telling me the link is not secure and redirects me away. Anyone else getting this issue too?

The old window ACs were really goddamn durable. These current window ACs die when the wind blows. Mini splits really are magic though.

also, I'm leaking CFCs and trying to claw a hole in the ozone

Central air conditioning system or bust 😂

For real though, never lived in a place that had these window units. Guess these are more common on the east coast.

I live in europe and they banned the left one :( and I want it

but at least it can connect to wifi