Small ones are actually often better than big ones. I have a love hate relationship with cloudflare, they contribute to internet centralization but it IPv6 enables so many sites transparently and they only let you turn it off if you're an enterprise customer. So some guy using free cloudflare has IPv6 but not discord, ironic. That being said I have NAT64+DNS64 which lets me access the remaining legacy v4 services without having v4 on my network or devices. Although according to my firewall stats over 90% of my traffic is v6 native, the remainder is NAT64. Honestly the only services I use on a regular basis which don't work if I disable NAT64, discord, steam, and my bank. Everything else I use is v6 native, YT, Crunchyroll, lemmy (this instance), even steam downloads (just not login ironically).

NetworkManager now has a CLAT and you can install clatd if not using nm.

But Linux is a bit behind on this tbh, especially compared to MacOS/iOS and Android (to a lesser extent) which have had mature clat support for years.

They would get fixed quickly if they were forced

Just give OpenClaw unrestricted access to your system and make the AI do it. /s

it’s because no one want to type in 32 alphanumeric digits for every single device, every time…

Use DNS; I almost never type in an IP manually. You can also make short IPv6 addresses that are just the prefix and a bunch of zeros using '::' followed by one (or more) characters.

Something like:

2001:0DB8::1

I mean I did say I hate ipv6...

But seriously, I think it has more to do with it's slightly different, easier for ISPs to just add another NAT layer or whatever instead of learn the minor differences.

If you are typing 32 chars for a IPv6 address you are doing it wrong

I’m slowly moving in the direction and have learned a lot, but in my home network, all my devices get a bunch of IPs and services seem to choose at random the IP to listen on. My ISP changes my prefix at random. Devices don’t register in DNS. So even if I use the ULA it’s a lot of fucking typing.

I also had this thing for a while where the MAC of a bhyve VM would change at boot so even the ULA changed. That fucked me for a while.

Opnsense lets me create aliases allowing me to create firewall rules, so at least that works now… kinda. But i haven’t figured out privacy extensions.

So yes, you’re right, 32 digits is a lot to keep in mind.

The kernel doesn't deal with DNS, that is a separate process/library

IPvX = IPvIV + IPvVI

Only in non-Euclidean geometry.