Oops, Goth Queen actually provided a solution earlier, it was just difficult for me to understand at the time. Enter whatever fixed DNS server you want and set 'Automatic (DHCP) addresses only' under IPv4 Settings in network-manager for the default network connection. So just manually entering in your VPN's DNS server (for PIA it's 209.222.18.222) or installing dnscrypt-proxy and choosing 127.0.0.2 as the server both work. This seems an adequate workaround for now.
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