Fly deploy fails with `Error failed to fetch an image or build from source: error fetching docker server`

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Last 2 days when trying to deploy something I get this error:
Error failed to fetch an image or build from source: error fetching docker server info: Get <url>: context deadline exceeded.
I have encountered this in the past already and last time it was due to a missing docker image on the hub. This time it’s not that and I’m lost again. I recently made huge changes to my app so I thought that I have broken something(which is what the usual explanation is), but I have also tried just running:

mix phx.new fly_test
cd fly_test && mix ecto.create
fly launch

and it fails. I am currently using Elixir 1.14 and erlang 25.0.3.

EDIT:
Ok so just when I posted that I somehow have figured it out. Just in case someone encounters this:

  1. Check if the image exists
  2. If it does, check that you are not using a VPN

I was using a VPN. As soon as I turned it off everything worked fine.
Now, as a matter of fact I have no idea why that is. Does someone have any idea?

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