You can easily "convert" wide angle photos to "normal" photos by just cropping out at least 50% of the wide angle photo.

Try it with your smartphone: make two pictures from exactly the same position, one with your wide angle lens and one with your normal lens. After that you should be able to crop the wide angle version in such a way that the framing & composition will be almost identical to the normal angled photo.

May I ask what mobile OS you use?

How do you know you've never had any malware? Isn't most malware designed to be as stealth as possible?

I dare you to try once more with the album Shiny Beast. IMO this is the best starting point in to Beefheart. Fun fact: I never liked rock music, close to hating it. I'm into soul, disco, jazz, hiphop and house. But Shiny Beast is one of my all time favourites.

Listening now. Will report back!

Ok. Gave a listen to the whole thing. While this is certainly a lot more musical than the other stuff I’ve heard like Trout Mask Replica, it’s still not really for me. The absurdist lyrics are a real barrier as are some of the guitar sounds. That said I like this voice a lot. Has really interesting timbre. I had heard it before but this album does a good job of putting it front and center.

The one — and only time — I heard TMR was probably in the late 90s (98 or 99). Just the name of the album is seared into my brain as some of the most unlistenable garbage that I've ever been assaulted with. To make this clear: I once listened to KUT broadcast analog feedback, one morning, for an hour, which was significantly better than TMR.

In college I held a contest with my friends "The worst band in the world". It was always a conversation starter at gatherings where we could debate the merits of our picks.

We had a few people who really hardcore defended Captain Beefheart. There was never any consensus on the worst (the goal was of course fun conversation not consensus). But if I may provide my own contemporary pick: Blood on the Dancefloor is the worst band in the world. And not just because of the music.

Thanks for the report, I appreciate you gave it a try. Thinking about it I doubt if I would like the album very much if I'd hear it for the first time now myself. But way back when it became an instant classic for me. TMR not so much...

This is excellent advice. I started off with Trout Mask Replica and thought "hm, maybe this isn't for me", but then I listened to the song "Love Lies" on a whim, then the rest of the album, and was hooked.

$5-$15 per ~year~ you say?

Apologies, I missed your point indeed. Thanks for clarifying. I agree the Safari browser release scheduling sucks, but still I think the owner of that website should make sure to cover older versions of browsers as well, up to a certain point. And if they can't - maybe even make a note available to its users (in a not invasive way) their browser might not be supported.

Yes, I agree these are lofty ideals to harbor. But I reserve them for when I'm drinking hot chocolate next to my non-existent fireplace in the comfort of my own home.

If you're sweating your socks off trying to get a plane ticket last minute on the go, someone telling you for whatever reason to update your OS can kindly fuck-off.

That's utter contempt for your users and a non-option pure and simple. The only real option is to hug and hold onto your non-Safari browser for dear life.

And... make sure to bring an extra pair of socks....

The fact that site doesn't work on Safari but does on other browsers doesn't have to mean it's Safari that's bugging out here, it could just be junk code they developed while only testing on all those browsers -except Safari- until it worked on those. Not a Safari issue in that case.

I think you are completely missing my point here.

The website works on the Safari that comes with the latest OS. I can't update the Safari version without updating the OS with a 14GB update. Nevermind the extremely annoying hassle of having to backup the devices before the updates "just in case".

I don't have to do that for any non-Apple browser while using the same Apple laptop. [0]

I think it was the late and great Joe Armstrong who said, in a tongue-in-cheek remark on object oriented programming,

"You want a banana, but to get the banana you need the gorilla holding the banana and the [goddamn] rain forest it lives in." (brackets might be my frustrated addition.)

[0] there were other websites that would work seamlessly on other browsers but would throw security errors that disappeared after the OS update, including an email provider that is regular posted about on HN.

Just install Safari Technology Preview.

More emphasis on breaking the taboo around open relationships and polyamory would benefit dating platforms immensely.

> With Safari, and Safari’s ability to run sites like apps (assuming this will make it to VisionOS), I don’t see this as that big of an issue.

I do see a big issue: not having the ability to use Netflix' and YouTube's (app only) download feature, to allow you to watch videos offline (on a plane for instance).

Back to pirating.