Got a color/pattern/style preference? These are the first I could find, but I'm sure we could make it work: https://www.ponyupdaddy.com/
MaskedNybbles
Yeah, this is what I do. Only wish mobile had the option.
Kind of stuck with Discord for the moment, but I've just been using a separate Firefox profile dedicated to the service. It's nice seeing multiple accounts at once and having easy access to extensions.
My fuzzy memory wants to say it uses/is based atop UDP, and makes it more reliable.
Just checked before posting, and that seems to be the case on a cursory glance of its wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
[EDIT] Should have read the article first—and it does mention UDP by the end.
This is a service provided by some DNS hosts, with their own special subdomains, and is not universal. They may also require slightly different options.
Other options include:
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Google (query for txt record):
@ns1.google.com o-o.myaddr.l.google.com -
Akaimai (query for txt record):
@ns1-1.akamaitech.net whoami.akamai.net -
Cloudflare:
@1.1.1.1 whoami.cloudflare -
Cisco (there are four, as far as can tell):
@resolver[1-4].opendns.com myip.opendns.com
…and likely others.
dig -6 +short @resolver2.opendns.com myip.opendns.com AAAA
Note: You have to ensure you are actually contacting the server with IPv6.
I worry less about the service breaking, changing, or otherwise disappearing, over a random website.
EDIT: Also what was said in a sibling comment.
There are local taxes on energy/electricity commerce in some number of jurisdictions, if that matters. New York, as an example: https://www.tax.ny.gov/forms/publications/st/pub718r.htm
I'd have to look into whether or how the mentioned—waived—4% state tax would apply on non-residential chargers. I would tend to imagine that any taxes on such would more-or-less cover the same.
Edited for clarity and to include link to example.