You know I always hear about struggling artists of all kinds like it's this new phenomenon. It isn't. Artists have always struggled, and I don't know why people think this is somehow a new thing. They struggled before the Internet, dealing with an industry always trying to crush them, and always finding ways to scam them. The only way artists have historically made a lot of money is to have multiple successful sales (albums, pieces, etc.) and tours. It's feast or famine. Certainly as long as recording has existed, it's been dominated by greedy jackasses and shady practises. Art has always relied on patronage as well.

If I can give a recommendation for those who want to learn to solder/desolder but are poorly practised...

Get yourself some old, shitty PCB's. Any will do. Just use something ruined that you don't intend to fix or is irreparable.

Practise desoldering and resoldering components. Eventually the pads will fall off, but that is okay, you can get a few cycles out of it before that happens.

Solder random crap into various positions. Practise removing SMT components with J tips on soldering irons. It's extremely difficult, but you can also try resoldering them (though the Right Way is to reflow a board with solder paste in the oven)

You have to learn soldering by doing, you can't learn it from a book alone.

Why is privacy important?

Consider this:

You're on the street, chatting up a friend, and you say, "heh, if I had the chance, I'd cap the president."

A CCTV camera catches you saying it. The cops think it's suspicious so they send it on to the secret service. Three agents come to your house to take you, to "ask you some questions."

If you think that sounds ridiculous, this already happens to people who say that kind of thing *online* in the US, on a regular basis. If the Feds can find you, they'll be very interested in that.

Right now I'm a disabled trans femme refugee who lives on $1,000 a month in Seattle with another trans refugee roommate and I'm stuck with bills like two storage units in Tulsa I'm saddled with.

I'm actively looking for work and have an interview next week. I'm also recovering from shingles. My partner is also looking for work.

Any extra money would be immensely beneficial to us and keeping us afloat right now. It's pretty difficult to live in Seattle on this little amount of money especially with two people.

Right now I got $30 to my name for the month cause bills came out. That's it.

Pretty much everything I get goes to bills and food.

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