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Don't put the headset on.

Not what you asked for, but if you're interested at all in digital audio books, I cannot recommend highly enough Chirp Books. They use a flash sale kind of model, and sometimes the author you're interested in has their books at 90% off for like 30 days, and it cycles on rotation. You do need their proprietary player app to listen, but you can download the audiobooks to your device for offline listening.

For actual ebooks, you could look into your local library, and what schemes are available for 'digital lending'. Some platforms exist that let you loan movies, games, stream music and download ebooks using your local library card.

Fuck the Daily Mail.

Yeah no. Plaid is one thing but giving access to your bank login to pay an invoice is something quite another. If it's legit they can accept a card payment, or send you to a PayPal invoice.

🎶 Ooh baby don't you know I suffer Oh baby when you phished my bank You sent me to a dodgy website Using a convincing link

Ooooooh-ooooh You drained my bank account Ooooooh-ooooh You drained my bank account🎶

Yeah, this checks out. They're "exept".

It's like he's a real life Zaphod Beeblebrox, only far, far worse.

They have memories from a past life, they were recycled from their ancestors. Like Assassin's Creed or something.

Good evening. Tonight's nightmare/night terror is brought to you by erev@lemmy.world.

Stock android without an unlocked bootloader will not give you access to the hosts file, and there shouldn't be a firewall you don't know about. Can you run a vbox or live USB on another machine on your network to see if it will see the server?

I just saw you already answered about the same gateway and mask. Hm. I'm thinking there's probably a janky setting on your router, that's the only place I can think of that might have a poorly configured or unconfiugred firewall. Especially if it works on the cellular using the VPN.

Good luck with it, I'm sorry I don't have the exact answer!

Edit - just saw your edit. Computing is like that sometimes! Glad you got it working. 👍

You could try changing your host server's IP address and see if it still has the same issue (maybe it's added to a hosts file, or perhaps you installed no root firewall?) Can you ping 192.168.68.106 from your server? Not sure if ICMP echo traffic would be blocked by Android however.

Do both your server and phone have the same gateway/subnet mask?

Reminds me of when I aliased 'man' to 'rtfm'