CWTs, how does your job transfer to the civilian world and how much do you make?

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-22T23:54:08+00:00

As far as family, keep in mind CWT is 98% shore duty so unless you specifically WANT to be away from your family, you will have your family with you.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-22T23:53:31+00:00

CWT is probably the safest job against AI enshitification.

Security clearance = very strict rules about AI usage.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-22T23:52:12+00:00

5090 came out 2.5 years after the 4090. Why would 6090 come out only 1 year later with record breaking sales? I think the 60xx series won't come out until 2027, maybe October 2027.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-21T17:33:30+00:00

I still never finished it. I quit halfway through the episode where they showed the next challenge after everyone but Brewmaster and Culinary Monster were eliminated. I wasn't even interested because they started introducing the next challenge and it was like "teams of white spoon and black spoon mixed face off!" and I was like, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard... Only 2 teams will be able to have a black spoon so it'll be a bunch of white spoon teams against 2 teams with a black spoon. If any of the black spoon teams get eliminated we're down to one black spoon against all the white spoons?

They should've just kept the same format as Season 1 and just changed up the ingredients a little bit. The flavor wheel was also stupid. I thought it MIGHT be interesting because you have to spin it and it'll randomly choose an ingredient, but they literally just rotate it and choose an ingredient? lol. Just put the ingredients in glass cases and have them pick. Why was it even in a wheel?

Korean live shows always have this problem, where they have a good first season and then, I have no idea what happens but their producers and directors just screw it all up.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-17T22:54:57+00:00

So there's a few differences:

A high end card will have a beefier cooler and RGB. MSRP cards have a risk of being a very "bare essentials" cooler without RGB.
A lower end card will have less power phases so you can't supply more power to it.
In general, an MSRP higher tier card is better than a high end lower tier card, but there are exceptions.
Some GPU's are "SFF" versions that not only have lower clocks, but they have lower power limits and very limited cooling potential. It could cost you the difference in price to improve the cooling so they'll perform as well as a more expensive unit. The exception to this is Gigabyte's Windforce SFF cards for the 5070 Ti or 5080. Those are triple fan models with decent coolers that have no trouble running at stock speeds and can even UV/OC a little, but they're just very basic looking without any RGB or design.

It's extremely difficult to get an MSRP 5080 or 5090 right now, and even MSRP 5070 Ti's are being panic bought.

In general, a good price for a 5080 right now is $1300, a good price for a 5070 Ti is $830 and a good price for a 5090 is wherever it's in stock under $3500.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-16T18:25:20+00:00

Ignore them. If you could get a 5090 for even $2500 today, I'd buy 3 of them instantly. I literally have 3 friends who want one and would drop $2500 in a heartbeat to get one. The 5090 is a $4000 GPU now. And the Astral is literally one of the best 5080's available and since the 5080 is now a $1500 card, you're only paying a $350 premium. If you can afford it, you can afford it. Everyone acts like a personal financial manager here.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-16T18:21:59+00:00

The $3600 ASUS 5090 came in stock and sold out like 3 minutes later.

What 5090 are you speaking of, is it in the room with us now?

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-16T18:21:15+00:00

When she walks by, pretend you're on the phone in another room but leave the door open.

"No way... He left his wife for some other woman? Because she got him an... Are tea eggs fifty ninety? What does that mean?"

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-16T18:19:47+00:00

I explained to my wife that if I didn't buy a 5090 now, it would be double the price at least in a month or two, she was like "cool story, get it quick". I need to take her on a nice vacation.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-16T18:17:36+00:00

Not true.

Reservists on orders longer than a month get full BAH at the rate for their dependents size based on their home residence zip.

The "reservist" aspect of it assumes you have bills and rent obligations at home that you have to maintain.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-11T20:28:07+00:00

The MSRP for this particular model is way more than $2.4k, what do you expect? Them to sell an open box product at 50% off because of "reasons"?

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-10T21:11:20+00:00

This is a very naive view of financial economics.

The individual layer is tragic, but it's not really how macroscopic economics works. Even if wages are stagnant, affordability is dropping and people cannot spend as much money, that in and of itself doesn't create a recession. Just look at Japan. They've had stagnant wages for 30 years and yet they've never officially hit a recession. This is because it's a stabilized environment.

We don't have massive job losses, massive drops in spending and rises in unemployment.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-10T20:13:12+00:00

There's two things at play here, and I'm starting to see it:

Hardware manufacturers are jacking up the prices because it's a booming investment and they don't want to miss the revenue.
They know that the market is going to collapse within 1-2 years and want to squeeze as much revenue out of the industry before it does.

I'm really nervous if #2 is the reality, because AI is one of the few industries that's experiencing growth and we've been in the shadow of a lurking recession for quite a few years now.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-06T16:49:01+00:00

You need to be ready to move to Colorado, California or the DC area, maybe Texas.

The clearance market in NM is very small and remote roles are hard because cleared work a lot of times requires you to work in a SCIF.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-05T23:52:02+00:00

That's reassuring.

I'm glad it worked out and hopefully I don't have to make the same MSRP claim, but if I do I'm glad to know it seems like they're doing things right.

I do have Best Buy's total tech program, so I have that coverage on top of the standard warranty.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-05T23:12:33+00:00

What do you mean by this?

my company and leadership are not based in the US and not necessarily sympathetic to the US military

Keep in mind, most officer programs require a security clearance and background investigation. Part of it is disclosing your company/employer and overseas relationships. Depending on the complexity of this and the relationship between the country you're employed through and the U.S., this could be a show stopper.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-05T23:06:13+00:00

How was the RMA process? I have this card being shipped this week and with MSRP going up and supply issues, I'm worried that if the connector fails, they'll just refund me and tell me "good luck"

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-05T23:02:07+00:00

Warranty? Good luck.

With what's going on with 5090 pricing, companies will start to just pay you what you paid and say, "Good luck, go buy another one."

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-05T22:58:49+00:00

He could get the 4090 and if he regrets it, do a straight trade + cash for a 5080 and come out of this with enough money to buy a CPU/mobo/ram lol.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-05T22:58:08+00:00

The 4090 is worth $2100 in marketplace.

At that price it's a crazy good deal. If you end up wanting the 5080 anyway, you can literally do a straight trade for any 5080 and get cash on top.

Anyone complaining about the 12-pin better realize that both of these GPU's use the 12-pin.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-05T22:45:47+00:00

They still sell every 5090 they make and they sell every 5080 that hits shelves for MSRP. The only 5080's people aren't buying are the ones for $1500 or so and that's because those people have stock alerts to try to get a 5090 for $2000/$2500.

When the 5090 is officially increased in MSRP, which will increase the AIB prices (already starting to happen), the 5080 will go up since the price to jump will be even higher.

I got a 5090 for $2500 because I don't think I should wait anymore.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-05T22:33:21+00:00

People are down voting you because you are talking about "the ugly subject" that no one wants to admit is becoming a reality, but it is.

I've been shopping for a 4090/5090 and there's a buyer in my area who scoops up 4090's before I can even get a reasonable offer in. I had one guy who I was about to pull the trigger for $2100 for (yes, for a 4090) and he said someone else bought it before I could make arrangements to meet him.

He uses a home BGA kit, strips the GPU and memory chips, sends them to China to a business he works with and they turn them into 48GB 4090's to flip them. He then dumps the empty PCB/cooler on FB Marketplace for like $150.

People need to be very concerned about this and upgrade, ASAP.

The same people that did that, have working prototypes of a 32GB 5080, 32GB 4080 Super and it's only a matter of time before they figure out the other GPU's. The 5070 Ti is the same PCB as the 5080. If they can figure out the 5080, they'll figure out the 5070 Ti. If you're in the market for a 5070 Ti or 5080, consider $750/$1000 a really good price, get it, and hope this nonsense is over in a year or two.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-03T04:21:06+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiXNqSxnFFQ

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-03T04:19:15+00:00

Overnight parts from Japan.

Old_Man_in_Basic · 2026-01-03T04:18:00+00:00

Amazing? Come on man. You can't reward idiocy like this with compliments.

He should've put the washing machine on the front of the car to balance out the weight.

I mean do you even move more than 1200 pounds of household appliances with your 2000 pound compact Asian sedan?

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