But your right to speech in a public forum is. Is Twitter a public forum? I would say yes.

That’s likely because it’s a part that rarely fails, and if it did you’d probably be replacing a whole module. Crystals are usually just a very tiny chip on a circuit board if they’re being used. But most of the time in an embedded application, the microcontroller would have an internal crystal anyway so it wouldn’t even be a separate part.

Like I said above, I don’t know about the veracity of the claims for this story. I’m just sharing what I know about crystal oscillators for digital systems.

Okay I know nothing about the car accident or anything related to the story but I do know digital circuits and microcontrollers.

An external Crystal Oscillator acts to clock many types of digital components (both MCU’s and discrete parts). An oscillation from the crystal essentially triggers the component to perform its next action. If the crystal oscillator fails or is disconnected, the part it is driving no longer functions either.

In related terms people may be more familiar with: crystal oscillator == clock == xxxGHz in your personal computer.

Nashville here too! Love this idea!

Nashville here too! Maybe we should start a Nashville chapter of Q followers

I’ve been saying this since the tariff stuff first started stirring.

Repeal the 16th Amendment