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With computer displays only limitation is hardware. If I had to hazard a guess, 144Hz is there because that’s approximately maximum supported on widest range of hardware and 144Hz crystals were widely available and therefore cheap. Kind of how there’s a huge market for rollerblade ball bearings. Pretty much all of the power tools are using them. They are simply everywhere because they are cheap.

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BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I was really hoping you were Lemmy’s 1996 rage in the cage account making every conversation about ball bearings

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- MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Haha, never heard of that.
  
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  - Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Probably a reference to shittymorph? knowyourmeme.com/…/the-undertaker-threw-mankind-o…
    
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    MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thanks.
    
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    BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hell in a cell not rage in a cage. Oops
    
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Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Tell me more about the ball bearing industry please!

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- frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Also subscribing for roller blade ball bearing facts
  
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  - Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I remember getting ABEC-5 bearings for my blades back in the day. Felt like you were rolling on ice. ABEC-7 was an option, but they were so expensive and the gains were supposedly marginal. Still, I sometimes wonder about what they would’ve been like.
    
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    flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Really no different. The ABEC rating is about machine tolerances so they can spin really fast.
    
    Roller blades and skateboards just don’t go that fast. Also the impacts and crap that they get off the ground damages them far more than what an industrial usage setting would.
    
    They’re just fleecing customers
    
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- MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Haha, very little experience with that. But I do know rollerblade bearings are now most popular bearings thanks to low prices because of their initial popularity. Kind of how 18650 cell became popular because of laptops and is now virtually everywhere, including EVs. It’s all playing at large scale with manufacturers.
  
  Not sure what’s the part you are interested in. I did learn about them in school, so perhaps I do have some knowledge you might find interesting.
  
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  - Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m guessing you’re talking about 608 bearings?
    
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    MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Indeed.
    
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Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Divide. They needed buffer room because 30 60 or 120hz aren’t always exactly 30, 60, or 120hz. Like you said 144 was just the cheapest that net or exceeded spec.

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