[icedchai]

I hear you. For most of the 90's, I had my home network on a publicly routed /24, no firewall.

[testfoobar]

Hosted my own domain and mail server right under my desk...

[icedchai]

Same! I now have the /24 routed over a wireguard tunnel. About 5 years back I was able to register my own ASN and set up peering through a VPS.