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It's gotten better but I'm not v6 only, I just don't have v4. I have NAT64 which basically uses your IPv6 as the private address in a traditional NAT setup, allowing you to continue to access the legacy internet without IPv4 inside your network. Catch is you can't connect to IPv4 addresses because it relies on a DNS64 server to generate IPv6 AAAA records from the IPv4 address when a domain only returns IPv4 so only DNS based services work. Basically it lets you have all the befits of a v6 only network with few of the drawbacks.
you gotta get clatd on your computer
I deliberately don't want or use a clat, the goal is to avoid IPv4
i see. does that meaningfully reduce the amount you use nat64? i ask because for me, most things go through dns anyway
No not really, I just don't like having the address on my interface, ironically it doesn't break half the stuff that removing 127.0.0.1 does...but I do that too XD
i guess you're living about 30 years in the future