diff --git a/common/compress/gzip.c b/common/compress/gzip.c
index 93703611..76fc90f4 100644
--- a/common/compress/gzip.c
+++ b/common/compress/gzip.c
@@ -116,15 +116,7 @@ void *gzip_uncompress(const void *source, uint64_t sourceLen, uint64_t *outsize)
 
     void *buf = ext_mem_alloc(dlen);
 
-    // XXX for some reason certain GZ files made by macOS do not properly decompress with stb_image
-    //     unless some skew (19 bytes?) is applied to the buffer. I have no idea why this is the
-    //     case but I'd rather have them load somewhat than not load at all.
-    for (uint64_t skew = 0; skew < 32; skew++) {
-        res = stbi_zlib_decode_noheader_buffer(buf, dlen, (const char *)start + skew, (src + sourceLen) - start - 8 - skew);
-        if (res != -1) {
-            break;
-        }
-    }
+    res = stbi_zlib_decode_noheader_buffer(buf, dlen, (const char *)start, (src + sourceLen) - start - 8);
 
     if (res == -1) {
         pmm_free(buf, dlen);