Some devices or software will ignore what the os or network are telling them and use their own DNS servers, mainly to bypass filtering. If that's what's happening then you're mostly out of luck. The best you could do is set up firewall rules to block those other servers, assuming they all even use port 53, but that would probably just prevent those devices from working at all.
It's not completely out of the question that you could intercept and redirect those requests, if they're not encrypted
The story I heard was that charging is taking far longer than usual because of cold batteries, and people are having to change much more frequently for the same reason, and between the two the demand for chargers has shot up