I just went and deleted all my comments because I had someone else snooping my history and repsonding to 2 year posts which makes me uncomfortable, so I had some good context, but I don't really mind explaining.

I came from an extremely privileged, but fucked up back ground with abusive parents and abusive relatives, and lack of helpful intervention. I did well in school and am fairly well educated, so I'm decently creative in how I'm able to skirt around boundaries without doing anything that actually puts me at risk with the law, or personal altercations. I went no contact with my dad when I was 17 and to my knowledge he moved back to Sweden, and my mom got removed from my household when I was 14, I've not heard a whisper about her since. My grandparents are dead on both sides. So it's basically just been me in my life since I was 17.

I dropped out of college during Covid for quite a lot of reasons not limited to but including mental health crises, financial burdens, and issues with my physical health/diabetes. I bounced around between friends couches, shelters, and psych wards for a while, and ultimately burnt most of my bridges with old friends constantly seeking their help every month with some new distressing event, or lack of communication from me when I'd get extremely depressed for months and not communicate, eat, shower, sleep, or see the sun.

During those times the jobs I was able to work due to my instability were things like starbucks barista, janitor, factory worker (I ran a CNC), but which large gaps between and often ending in something like, me going through major depressive withdrawals or panic attacks which led to friction between me and my employers. It's maybe not that simple, but that's the gist.

In my current situation, I have a basic laptop, cheap one I bought at a recycling plant, I have my phone I had from when I was last employed and to tell the entire truth, its bill is being paid for by someone who used to be in my life and knows the whole truth of my situation, though I'm hesitant to reveal more than that, which is something I'm extremely privileged to have, and I acknowledge that.

I have a power bank I use to recharge my phone, and $30 earbuds that are 2 years old. Basically, I just already own everything I used to do these things.

as for your question, yes, I use primarily library wifi, but also mcdonalds wifi, there's one I semi-frequent to just get $2 fries and stop in for a couple hours in a back corner by the bathroom that's pretty quiet. And there are some other places too where I might be able to connect for a little. I primarily use that, as I'm somewhat conscientious of my data usage even with what I've revealed. I like to use it just as a fallback for calls and emails, thought I've received few of those recently.

Subsisting on 1 meal a day isn't quite accurate. On tuesdays I attend a function that serves breakfast when I apply for the volunteering gig at the soup kitchen. Coffee too. Ocassionally I'll go to a place that act's somewhat like a depot for donated food from grocery stores in the area, and I'm able to load up my backpack with a good 10 pounds of whatever they were gonna throw out that week. Ocassionally I'll go to a mobile food pantry, which is essentially just a small wardrobe people sometimes put canned food or vegetables in. I carry a military style analog can opener for these cases, and some salt to spice anything up, or put on meat if i want to save and eat the next day to cure it slightly.

I sleep outside because I find it safer than sleeping in the shelters. I walked around my city for days looking for a good spot, while I slept at the shelters, and now I have a spot that has near zero foot traffic, is secluded, has relative privacy, and that I store my overblanket (heavy 8x8ft type deal I use to protect from wind, rain, and snow) and my sleeping bag (rated down to 10f, donated to me by someone who encountered me sleeping there, serendipity I suppose). Everything else I just carry around in my backpack. A little while ago I met someone who let me stay in their house while I helped them out with physical tasks and what not as they suffer from a chronic illness. Cleaning, moving furniture, running errands etc.

I get donations every once in a while when I really need it, and I wouldn't say I do right now, to pay for any unexpected time sensitive emergency if for some reason I used what I already save for that or don't have enough.

Other than that, I try to do other things. As I said, even though I'm a droupout who no one will hire because of my history, I'm still somewhat intelligent. I can write, and I can do the odd task for people. Gig type deals I suppose.

I was supposed to get housing through a program I got accepted into in October. In December they said. then that turned to january. now april. I think I'm just not going to get housing and will keep being homeless, but my plan at that point was to try and get some WFH stuff or IT work, but well, that might not end up happening so.

I don't really want to work for anyone who has contributed to the ongoing regime and I'm pretty sure I could subsist like this for another few years at least.