Here as well

I love posts like this because it always has the subtle insinuation that weight gain is some moral failing on individuals instead of the natural result of allowing food producers across the board to sell the most unhealthy slop you could ever dream of while simultaneously making healthy food (literally just fresh, unprocessed items - i.e. the things that everyone ate for tens of thousands of years) a luxury item. This, of course, happening after food lobbyists successfully brainwashed entire generations of people with their shareholder-approved "food pyramid."

End of rant

The reality is probably that kernel developers don't get any younger nowadays. And believe me, when you get older, have children and less free time, your waistline suffers a bit. Or even a bit more than a bit.

Linux is growing

Oh my god, Linux makes you fat.

Nice weve all been lifting.

By now, Arch and Rust fans have probably corrected this 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It's all the bloat in those distros that is transferred to the waistline, back in the day we used WindowMaker. Not all that fancy Gnome and KDE stuff.

The one advantage of being significantly ill this year is that I can finally fit into large shirts and medium pants after years of XXL and XL of the former and latter.

I mean the rest sucks, but that's pretty nice.

not me! woohoo. same XL then as now.

of course, back then when i was younger i favored oversized shirts. now they just fit.

I'm xxl but I'm also built like a forklift. When I was younger I could throw rolls of vinyl flooring over my shoulder. I wish I took better care of my knees though.

Ha! All you Linux nerds are fat.

I mean I'm fat too but you guys also.

This says nothing about how tall they are. I wear XL, for being 190cm and 95kg

I am definitely not qualified as being "fat"

Dog eat dog. All the big nerds are the little ones.

Feel bad for all my tall bros. Hard to find a shirt that fits, always gotta be to short or too tight, gotta go larger.

"Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! That OS, it's...it's a COOKBOOK!"

To be fair, I'm still a large in my old shirts but an xlt in new shirts. Not always us getting bigger, but the cuts getting smaller

So, why are penguins shrinking shirt sizes?

from twinks to hell yeah

Well I'm the only Linux nerd I know nor have I ever met another one in person and I'm a medium, could probably get away with a small if I had a touch more self confidence.

They're too busy ricing their WMs to get exercise

I could imagine this to be mich similar to the 1999 one in 2023 again

The shirt supplier may also be a factor. An American/EU size M is like an Asian L or XL. So if they changed the supplier then that's a possibility for the change.

Those twinks found out about oversized tees

Kernel developers are like black angels who were banned 🚫 for their incompetence so they had to find a niche that wouldn't remind them of corporate heaven. This is why they don't take care of themselves, they smell like tarmac, still send commits through fax and generally are stuck in the 90's. Maybe Japan would welcome them, but not 🚫 USA.