ClassicGMR

Do you have an A+ certification or your MCSE? While you don't need either, it helps to have a certification or two as a distinguishing factor between you and your competition.

In-home repairs bring in more money, but have higher cost in time and gas, so set a charge to show up based on a base cost + mileage. Offer a diagnosis included in that cost. Then work on an hourly basis from there.

Never do any work for free, but that doesn't mean that you can't discount things.

Learn to do screen repairs and battery swaps by buying broken phones cheap on ebay and watching youtube videos.

Set up an LLC and a website that can be verified by potential clients. If you own any real property, get insurance as well. 

Get magnet placards for both sides of your vehicle. People like to see professional printing on a vehicle and it's free advertising as you drive down the road. Put them on and take them off each day as they can leave a suntan otherwise.

Get a 2nd phone number app for your phone. Do not give clients your personal number or they will call you all the time and have others call you as well.

Add TV hangs and home theater sales, service, and installations to the list of services that you provide.

You will need marketing. Start by hanging business cards in any business that have boards for it When you finish a job and the client is extra happy, write their name on the back of 3 business cards and ask them to hand them out to friends. Tell them that you will give a 5% referral discount to them and their friend on future work.

A guy around here works out of his home, advertises in classifieds, and yeah,  his name comes up in internet searches...I've had him fix hard drive issues, memory leaks, re-install Windows, put in new CD Drives, etc.  He is always cheap, always professional, and always busy as hell!  If you know your stuff,  it could be a really good gig for you.

Best of luck on it!   Nothing like following your dream!

I hate living in interesting times. Can we have a few boring years now?

If the intent is not piracy, what purpose does a Switch emulator have? Is it meant as a development environment for those where Nintendo doesn't offer one? To play freely downloadable games, if such exist? I agree it is comparing apples and oranges that shutting down a Switch emulator is a blow to the entire emulation experience.

Had to read through this a couple of times to really grok it, but the following seems particularly relevant:

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Yuzu executes code that decrypts Nintendo Switch video games (including component files) immediately before and during runtime using unauthorized copies of Nintendo Switch cryptographic keys. 

This makes it sound as though the real issue at stake was Yuzu's use of Nintendo's keys.  That was what allowed Nintendo to go after Tropic Haze; emulation itself is still in a safe spot by all appearances.

Having said that, it was pretty dumb of them to lift the keys wholesale and include them in their emulator.  Granted, clean-room reverse-engineering of crypto keys to produce ones that don't infringe on someone else's IP isn't a realistic proposition.  But when they hit that point, the giant red flags should've been obvious.  Maybe they were and they ploughed on regardless; maybe they weren't and they were victims of their own ignorance.  Either way, the outcome is what it is.

It's unfortunate that this is the situation Tropic Haze has ended up in, but when Compaq figured this out over 40 years ago they really don't have much of an excuse.  Yuzu was quite a technological accomplishment, to be sure, and full credit to them for the work that they did.