[brityank]

Sweeping brown-outs won’t hurt a thing./s

My power company has been trying to get us to move to "Smart Meters" - where they control your AC power feed. FU I said!

[Erasmus]

Just because crystals “can” regulate to within a second a year doesn’t mean every clock design goes to the expense of using such a crystal.

A crystal oscillator that can be counted on (heh-heh) to produce that kind of accuracy is orders of magnitude too expensive for consumer gear.