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So there’s three problems you are very likely to encounter.

1. Most providers now almost certainly filter their egress for netblocks under their control to prevent ip spoofing. So it’s likely the packets would never make it out at all.

2: if it does work the return path would be over the normal Internet route and not via the vpn. Only the sent packets would go via the vpn host.

3: if the client is behind nat the router will not recognise the response packets as belonging to an open connection and will drop them.

I’m really not sure what your intention is.

Yeah, not sure how many isps block it. They didn’t used to 10 years or so ago. I used to block unknown ips at my egress.

But they should, and I’m hoping they do now.

I’m also not too sure what the point would be for the OP. Even if their isp allows the ip spoofing the response would take the normal route back to the vpn client.

I think gandi are still good if you just need dns registration, and want anything remotely technical (in my case glue records) they’re still good.

I’m not using lemmy. But I was thinking of making a process to periodically scan the object storage and check for a reference to a post, comment etc and if none are found delete it. In most cases the images are deleted but sometimes they don’t seem to be.

Probably lemmy could have a similar process created.

Well mobile data is very different. With fibre optic you can generally keep provisioning more cables and a single cable already carries a huge amount already.

Radio has an absolute efficiency limit for the bandwidth of a signal and we’re pretty damn close to that now.

5g uses wider bandwidth channels, with more cells closer together and uses things like beamforming. But there’s still always going to be an upper limit that is considerably lower than fibre.

This is why they likely want to discourage 5g becoming a full alternative to wired, because there’s just not the capacity to do it on the same scale.

Well, more specifically it is protecting against a specific form of data loss, which is hardware failure. A good practice if you’re able is to have RAID and an offsite/cloud backup solution.

But if you don’t, don’t feel terrible. When the OVH datacentre had a fire, I lost my server there. But so did a lot of businesses. You’d be amazed at how many had no backup and were demanding that OVH somehow pry their smouldering drives from what remained of the datacentre wing and salvage all the data.

If you care about your data, you want a backup that is off-site. Cloud backup is quite inexpensive these days.