Ben Packard writes a question for John.

We've learned over the years that old Apple products go in the attic and cheese graders belong in the basement.

What is your rationale for the items that are promoted to the rarefied air of the attic while others must dwell in the damp underworld?

Is it a matter of weight? Is it because the Apple products must be closer to God?

So well done. Well done, Ben Packard, and this is a great way to open the show and kind of make us all smile.

So John, what's the pecking order here?

First of all, I take some offense that the idea that my basement is damp. I do not have a damp basement.

I control the humidity level of my home. My basement is not damp and has never been damp.

In fact, even when my water heater has failed twice, the dampness has not spread to become pervasive in the basement.

I have, you know, maybe it also helps in in New England. The winter is a very dry, but I did not have a damp basement.

In fact, my synology is in the basement. Still going strong after all his years. No dampness.

As for the answer to the question, I mean, the easy one is the attic has way more room than the basement.

Because the attic is much harder to get to and not frequently, you know, nobody goes there that frequently.

So it's more of a storage space. Whereas the basement, there's actually a lot of kitchen stuff down there.

I've got like, like the, you know, our big lobster pot is down there and some serving trays and like the thing that holds the cake when you travel back when you used to travel.

There's lots of kitchen stuff down there. And so the cheese grater is naturally just went with the kitchen stuff.

So we have like a bunch of those big shelves against one of the walls. And so that's why the cheese grater is down there.

They're with the kitchen stuff.

So starting with some follow up, Nathaniel Cohen writes with regard to off-axis viewing of a very large LCD.

Doesn't it make you want a curved display? I'm a long time curved display person.

And I have been very sad that they have more or less disappeared from the market.

Here's hoping that the XDR2 will be curved. I mean, as we've said last episode, I have not really properly given curved displays a chance.

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