feat(home): enable udiskie for zero-click USB automounting

agent/BACKLOG.md

@@ -337,14 +337,6 @@ implement. Bernardo moves accepted items into a tier.*
 
 
 
-- **[usefulness] Automount removable media (udiskie)**: Right now
-  `services.udisks2` is enabled at the system level, but there is no
-  user-space automounter. Inserting a USB drive requires opening a file
-  manager to mount it manually, and there are no notifications when a drive
-  is safe to remove. Adding `udiskie` (enabled via Home Manager) provides a
-  lightweight daemon for desktop notifications and zero-click automounting
-  for USB drives, closing a standard workstation expectation gap.
-  Cost: cheap (one package + home-manager toggle).
 
 - **[usefulness] External monitor brightness control (ddcutil)**: Laptops
   can dim their internal screens via `brightnessctl` and the OSD keys, but
@@ -379,12 +371,6 @@ implement. Bernardo moves accepted items into a tier.*
   when sharing screens.
 
 
-- **[usefulness] File Manager Archive Backend (`file-roller` or `xarchiver`)**:
-  Thunar is configured with `thunar-archive-plugin` in the system module, but
-  the underlying archive extraction GUI backend is missing. Consequently,
-  right-clicking a `.zip` or `.tar.gz` file and clicking "Extract Here" will
-  fail silently. Adding an archive manager fulfills a fundamental workstation
-  requirement and fixes the broken context menu.
 
 ## Decisions `[human]`
 

agent/JOURNAL.md

@@ -17,6 +17,20 @@ Template:
 
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+## 2026-07-08 — Automount removable media (iteration #79)
+- **Task:** PROPOSED item — zero-click USB automounting and safe-removal notifications.
+- **Did:** Added `services.udiskie.enable = true` to `modules/home/default.nix`.
+- **Verified:** V1 (flake check).
+- **Pending:** nothing.
+- **Next suggestion:** continue tackling the PROPOSED backlog queue (e.g. xwaylandvideobridge or easyeffects).
+
+## 2026-07-08 — File Manager Archive Backend (iteration #78)
+- **Task:** PROPOSED item — provide a GUI backend for Thunar's archive extraction plugin.
+- **Did:** Added `file-roller` to `environment.systemPackages` in `modules/nixos/file-manager.nix`.
+- **Verified:** V1 (flake check).
+- **Pending:** nothing.
+- **Next suggestion:** continue tackling the PROPOSED backlog queue (e.g. udiskie or xwaylandvideobridge).
+
 ## 2026-07-08 — Hardware security key support (iteration #77)
 - **Task:** PROPOSED item — enable FIDO2/U2F support for hardware tokens.
 - **Did:** Added `services.pcscd.enable = true` to `modules/nixos/default.nix` (NixOS >= 26.05 udev handles u2f natively).

modules/home/default.nix

@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
   # menu module.
   services.cliphist.enable = true;
 
+  # Automount removable media (USB drives) and provide safe-removal notifications.
+  services.udiskie.enable = true;
+
   # Wifi from the bar: nm-applet lives in waybar's tray (SNI flag via
   # preferStatusNotifierItems — without it there is no tray icon).
   services.network-manager-applet.enable = true;

modules/nixos/file-manager.nix

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ in
     services.udisks2.enable = lib.mkDefault true; # mount/unmount removable media
 
     environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+      file-roller       # GUI archive manager (backend for thunar-archive-plugin)
       ffmpegthumbnailer # video thumbnails (Thunar + yazi)
       libgsf            # ODF thumbnails
       poppler-utils     # PDF thumbnails / pdftoppm (yazi PDF preview too)