diff --git a/hosts/arcturus/default.nix b/hosts/arcturus/default.nix
index 0779ae1..6bd53fe 100644
--- a/hosts/arcturus/default.nix
+++ b/hosts/arcturus/default.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
   networking = {
     useNetworkd = false;
+    networkmanager.enable = false;
     useDHCP = false;
 
     nftables.enable = true;
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@
           Gateway = "10.16.1.1";
           DNS = ["10.16.1.1"];
           LinkLocalAddressing = "no";
+          DHCP = "no";
         };
         linkConfig.RequiredForOnline = "routable";
       };
diff --git a/snow.nix b/snow.nix
index 0be6e6b..4f03787 100644
--- a/snow.nix
+++ b/snow.nix
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ cerulean.mkNexus ./. (self: {
                       {
                         image = "/var/lib/microvms/home-assistant/data.img";
                         mountPoint = "/var/lib/hass";
-                        size = 16384; # 16GB
+                        autoCreate = false;
                       }
                     ];
                   };
diff --git a/vms/home-assistant/default.nix b/vms/home-assistant/default.nix
index 17ad40c..70bcd07 100644
--- a/vms/home-assistant/default.nix
+++ b/vms/home-assistant/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 {
   services.home-assistant = {
     enable = true;
-    configDir = "/var/lib/hass";
+    configDir = "/var/lib/hass/hass";
 
     # disables config generation, i don't wanna configure home assistant
     # through nix at the moment
@@ -16,15 +16,32 @@
 
     extraPackages = python3Packages: with python3Packages; [
       getmac
+      aiohue
+      numpy
+      aiodhcpwatcher
+      async-upnp-client
+      gtts
+      numpy
+      plexapi
+      pyipp
+      paho-mqtt
+      pyturbojpeg
     ];
   };
 
-  systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [
-    # configures the config directory to be mounted
-    # correclty with the right permissions
-    "z /var/lib/hass 0755 hass hass -"
-    "z /var/lib/hass/lost+found 0755 hass hass -"
-  ];
+  # configures the config directory to be mounted
+  # correctly with the right permissions
+  systemd.services.hass-permissions = {
+    wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+    after = [ "var-lib-hass.mount" ];
+    requires = [ "var-lib-hass.mount" ];
+    before = [ "home-assistant.service" ];
+    serviceConfig = {
+      Type = "oneshot";
+      ExecStart = "${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash -c 'mkdir -p /var/lib/hass/hass && chown hass:hass /var/lib/hass/hass'";
+      RemainAfterExit = true;
+    };
+  };
 
   networking = {
     nftables.enable = true;