2025-07-12 Notes

Starting the polkit agent for hyperland arch to handle permission elevation for desktop applications.

Starting the polkit agent for hyperland arch to handle permission elevation for desktop applications.

Error

An error occurred while accessing ‘bazzite-nvidia_razorcrest’, the system responded: Cannot request authentication for this action. The PolicyKit authentication system appears to be not available.: Not authorized to perform operation

exec-once = waybar & hyprpaper & $terminal & polkit & swaync & /usr/lib/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1

!!! GIPPITY

🧠 Why this happens:
Polkit handles permission elevation for desktop apps.

Dolphin uses udisks2 to mount drives, which asks Polkit for permission.

If you don't run a Polkit agent, you won't be able to authorize mount actions from the GUI.

Error

❯ just build

Error: configure storage: kernel does not support overlay fs: ‘overlay’ is not supported over btrfs at “/home/waylon/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay”: backing file system is unsupported for this graph driver error: Recipe build failed with exit code 125

paru -S fuse-overlayfs
mkdir -p ~/.config/containers
nvim ~/.config/containers/storage.conf
[storage]
driver = "overlay"

[storage.options]
mount_program = "/usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs"

Wyatt and I tried 3 times to beat the ice tower on our second run of Cat Quest III and failed, its tough.

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