diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/run-tests.yml b/.forgejo/workflows/run-tests.yml
index 30d0359..4d5d361 100644
--- a/.forgejo/workflows/run-tests.yml
+++ b/.forgejo/workflows/run-tests.yml
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ jobs:
       
       - name: nix flake check
         run: |
-          nix flake check --show-trace
+          nix flake check --show-trace --print-build-logs
diff --git a/modules/options/default.nix b/modules/options/default.nix
index d0a43d0..f73d244 100644
--- a/modules/options/default.nix
+++ b/modules/options/default.nix
@@ -22,14 +22,16 @@ in
       mkIf cfg.enable
       (
         let
+          isStrList = x: builtins.all (x: builtins.isString x) x;
           prepass = x:
             if (builtins.isAttrs x)
             then
               if !(builtins.hasAttr "tag" x)
               then
-                attrsets.mapAttrsToList (tag: value: {
+                attrsets.mapAttrsToList
+                (tag: value: {
                   inherit tag;
-                  content = value;
+                  content = prepass value;
                 })
                 x
               else if (builtins.hasAttr "content" x)
@@ -39,8 +41,16 @@ in
               }
               else x
             else if (builtins.isList x)
-            then builtins.map prepass x
-            else throw "wtf";
+            then
+              if (isStrList x)
+              then
+                (builtins.map (content: {
+                  tag = "string";
+                  inherit content;
+                })
+                x)
+              else builtins.map prepass x
+            else x;
 
           toXml = tag: x: (toXml' {
             inherit tag;
@@ -48,19 +58,21 @@ in
               "xmlns:xsi" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
               "xmlns:xsd" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
             };
-            content = x;
+            content = prepass x;
           });
         in {
-          system.activationScripts."link-network-xml" = lib.stringAfter ["var"] (
-            let
-              content = toXml "NetworkConfiguration" (prepass cfg.network);
-            in ''
-              mkdir -p /var/lib/jellyfin/config
-              if [ ! -f "/var/lib/jellyfin/config/network.xml" ]; then
-                echo '${strings.escape ["'"] content}' > /var/lib/jellyfin/config/network.xml
-              fi
-            ''
-          );
+          system.activationScripts."link-network-xml" =
+            lib.stringAfter ["var"]
+            (
+              let
+                storeFile = pkgs.writeText "network.xml" (toXml "NetworkConfiguration" cfg.network);
+              in ''
+                echo "[Declarative Jellyfin] Creating /var/lib/jellyfin/config"
+                mkdir -p "/var/lib/jellyfin/config"
+                echo "[Declarative Jellyfin] Linking ${storeFile} to /var/lib/jellyfin/config/network.xml"
+                cp -s "${storeFile}" "/var/lib/jellyfin/config/network.xml"
+              ''
+            );
         }
       );
   }
diff --git a/tests/networking.nix b/tests/networking.nix
index 74a3411..79c737d 100644
--- a/tests/networking.nix
+++ b/tests/networking.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ in {
           ../modules/default.nix
         ];
 
-        virtualisation.memorySize = 1024;
+        virtualisation.memorySize = 1024 * 2;
 
         services.declarative-jellyfin = {
           enable = true;
@@ -28,24 +28,31 @@ in {
     };
 
     # stfu i dont care about python linting
-    skipLint = true;
+    # skipLint = true;
 
     testScript = ''
       import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 
-      machine.start()
       machine.wait_for_unit("multi-user.target");
 
       with subtest("Jellyfin URI"):
-        machine.succeed("ls /var/lib/jellyfin")
-        tree = ET.parse("/var/lib/jellyfin/config/network.xml")
+        # stupid fucking hack because you cant open files in python for some reason
+        xml = machine.succeed("cat /var/lib/jellyfin/config/network.xml")
+        tree = ET.ElementTree(ET.fromstring(xml))
         root = tree.getroot()
-        found = False
         for child in root:
           if child.tag == "PublishedServerUriBySubnet":
-            found = True
-            print(child)
-            assert False
+            try:
+              if child[0].text == "all=https://test.test.test":
+                break
+            except:
+              print("An error occured when trying to parse xml")
+              print(xml)
+              assert False, "Exception occured, check output above"
+        else:
+          assert False, "The shit was not found"
+
+      machine.shutdown()
     '';
   };
 }