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[โ€“] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

computers on the internet have an ip address, such as 192.168.1.1

Except computer on the internet specifically do not have an IP address such as that one.

[โ€“] GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Does not really matter for the explanation. Also you can still set up DNS for it.