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by SAI_Peregrinus 3049 days ago
They generally are too small to be useful. That's why I called it "tinfoil hatty". Most of the issues with them come from mechanically coupled vibrations in a system (from fans and the like) flexing the whole circuit board, so it's not as big an issue with phones. Also most of the capacitors are power supply decoupling caps, so difficult to sense variations from.

It's mostly just a fiendishly annoying effect in high-sensitivity test equipment.