Yes, it is possible!
I hope you have some solid soldering and hot air workstation skills, but assuming you do then yes its 100% possible.
I do not recommend it.
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This.
It definitely is possible, but if you have to ask, you probably don't have the background to do it.
If you want to do it anyways, great! You'll be learning some new skills. I suggest taking it slow. Use a bunch of dummy boards to practice on. When you're ready to try for real, try it on a machine you don't care about first. Something cheap enough that you don't care if you mess it up.
With a fast enough ssd you can use zram or a swap partition to emulate having more RAM.
Hmmm, that sounds interesting, Thanks!
Do note that SSDs are orders of magnitude slower than RAM (it's why you have both, and not just a giant SSD). You can feel the machine come to a screeching halt the moment swap is used for active tasks.
As to your last question: It would almost certainly not be worth it.
Yeah, it is basically never worth the effort to de-solder and re-solder RAM. It's why people rail so hard on it and why you should pay attention to it's (non-) existence next computer you buy. It hurts you years down the line when what should have been a cheap upgrade is turned into simply binning what you own and buying new.
It is effectively not possible to add more RAM to it.
is it possibly, yes. but if you have to ask yhat its possible, you likely dont have the skillset required to do it, and paying somone else is typically not cost effective
Download more ram /s