I FIXED IT!!!
Double posting because... You will not believe how stupid this solution was.
I thought someone else must have a problem with error code 6, so I was trawling Google, and found some post somewhere saying it's a timer issue, and rebooting the system should fix it. And I was thinking about this, and the UK government websites also kept complaining of time outs. And then I thought, could this be connected to my computer's internal timer - that is, the clock?
Now, you see, there is no clock or watch in my house which is actually set at the actual real REAL time of our reality. I keep everything a little bit fast, to varying degrees, to augment my behaviour in a Pavlovian style. People say to me don't I realise this and ignore the fake time, and the answer is no, because all the clocks are ever so slightly out of synch, so eventually even I can't work it out, and it's mainly psychological. I tell time not with the numbers but the shape of the arms. Simpsons is on at 6, for example, but in my mind this is "long stick" time. Lunch I usually have at 12, or half stick time. Waking up in the morning is tall man kicking his leg out at a shallow angle. It's all about the shapes, man, and how I instantly react based on the shape I recognise. This is how I taught myself to tell the time when I was like 3 or 4. When I was a little kid, cartoons always came on at Pac-Man time, because that's the shape the arms made. So my PC clock runs about 7 minutes into the future, my alarm clock 10 minutes (so I can sleep a bit longer), and the clock in my lounge 5 minutes so I never miss a TV show. The watch on my wrist varies, but it's between 5 to 10 minutes. Or something.
So I decide to synchronise the time with a server, and BAM! Every site works again. My bank, GOG, everything. I can't believe it.
But I want to verify this is the cause, so I go back and change it to the wrong time, reset Firefox, and the same problems again. You can verify this yourself. Change the time on your PC, and if you have a GOG account reset Firefox and try favouriting a game. It doesn't work. Same with Barclays.
Who the **** came up with such a bull**** idea like not having websites function unless it's the actual real time? Don't these programmers realise some us don't actually like living with the actual real time? Some us like to be out of phase with reality?
Anyway, how crazy is that? IT WAS THE TIME!
To think I spent today uninstalling and reinstalling ESET, installing new browsers, VPN software. FML.
Thank you everyone who tried to help!
Double posting because... You will not believe how stupid this solution was.
I thought someone else must have a problem with error code 6, so I was trawling Google, and found some post somewhere saying it's a timer issue, and rebooting the system should fix it. And I was thinking about this, and the UK government websites also kept complaining of time outs. And then I thought, could this be connected to my computer's internal timer - that is, the clock?
Now, you see, there is no clock or watch in my house which is actually set at the actual real REAL time of our reality. I keep everything a little bit fast, to varying degrees, to augment my behaviour in a Pavlovian style. People say to me don't I realise this and ignore the fake time, and the answer is no, because all the clocks are ever so slightly out of synch, so eventually even I can't work it out, and it's mainly psychological. I tell time not with the numbers but the shape of the arms. Simpsons is on at 6, for example, but in my mind this is "long stick" time. Lunch I usually have at 12, or half stick time. Waking up in the morning is tall man kicking his leg out at a shallow angle. It's all about the shapes, man, and how I instantly react based on the shape I recognise. This is how I taught myself to tell the time when I was like 3 or 4. When I was a little kid, cartoons always came on at Pac-Man time, because that's the shape the arms made. So my PC clock runs about 7 minutes into the future, my alarm clock 10 minutes (so I can sleep a bit longer), and the clock in my lounge 5 minutes so I never miss a TV show. The watch on my wrist varies, but it's between 5 to 10 minutes. Or something.
So I decide to synchronise the time with a server, and BAM! Every site works again. My bank, GOG, everything. I can't believe it.
But I want to verify this is the cause, so I go back and change it to the wrong time, reset Firefox, and the same problems again. You can verify this yourself. Change the time on your PC, and if you have a GOG account reset Firefox and try favouriting a game. It doesn't work. Same with Barclays.
Who the **** came up with such a bull**** idea like not having websites function unless it's the actual real time? Don't these programmers realise some us don't actually like living with the actual real time? Some us like to be out of phase with reality?
Anyway, how crazy is that? IT WAS THE TIME!
To think I spent today uninstalling and reinstalling ESET, installing new browsers, VPN software. FML.
Thank you everyone who tried to help!
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