ben used steal, it was super effective

services/NetworkService.qml

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+pragma Singleton
+
+import Quickshell
+import Quickshell.Io
+import QtQuick
+
+Singleton {
+    id: root
+
+    readonly property list<AccessPoint> networks: []
+    readonly property AccessPoint active: networks.find(n => n.active) ?? null
+
+    reloadableId: "network"
+
+    Process {
+        running: true
+        command: ["nmcli", "m"]
+        stdout: SplitParser {
+            onRead: getNetworks.running = true
+        }
+    }
+
+    Process {
+        id: getNetworks
+        running: true
+        command: ["nmcli", "-g", "ACTIVE,SIGNAL,FREQ,SSID,BSSID", "d", "w"]
+        environment: ({
+                LANG: "C",
+                LC_ALL: "C"
+            })
+        stdout: StdioCollector {
+            onStreamFinished: {
+                const PLACEHOLDER = "STRINGWHICHHOPEFULLYWONTBEUSED";
+                const rep = new RegExp("\\\\:", "g");
+                const rep2 = new RegExp(PLACEHOLDER, "g");
+
+                const networks = text.trim().split("\n").map(n => {
+                    const net = n.replace(rep, PLACEHOLDER).split(":");
+                    return {
+                        active: net[0] === "yes",
+                        strength: parseInt(net[1]),
+                        frequency: parseInt(net[2]),
+                        ssid: net[3],
+                        bssid: net[4]?.replace(rep2, ":") ?? ""
+                    };
+                });
+                const rNetworks = root.networks;
+
+                const destroyed = rNetworks.filter(rn => !networks.find(n => n.frequency === rn.frequency && n.ssid === rn.ssid && n.bssid === rn.bssid));
+                for (const network of destroyed)
+                    rNetworks.splice(rNetworks.indexOf(network), 1).forEach(n => n.destroy());
+
+                for (const network of networks) {
+                    const match = rNetworks.find(n => n.frequency === network.frequency && n.ssid === network.ssid && n.bssid === network.bssid);
+                    if (match) {
+                        match.lastIpcObject = network;
+                    } else {
+                        rNetworks.push(apComp.createObject(root, {
+                            lastIpcObject: network
+                        }));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    component AccessPoint: QtObject {
+        required property var lastIpcObject
+        readonly property string ssid: lastIpcObject.ssid
+        readonly property string bssid: lastIpcObject.bssid
+        readonly property int strength: lastIpcObject.strength
+        readonly property int frequency: lastIpcObject.frequency
+        readonly property bool active: lastIpcObject.active
+    }
+
+    Component {
+        id: apComp
+
+        AccessPoint {}
+    }
+}