What Can People Do with Your IP? Should You Be Worried? or What Can People Do with Your IP? Risks and

OP here—thanks for all the replies! Definitely feel less paranoid now.

Tried ShieldsUp like someone suggested, and yeah, my ports were way too open. Fixed that. Also grabbed ProtonVPN just to be safe.

One last Q: does using a VPN slow down gaming? Heard mixed things.