diff --git a/bin/README.md b/bin/README.md
index 1fef13f4..b6a033b8 100644
--- a/bin/README.md
+++ b/bin/README.md
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ and consider using [../docs/rclone.md](../docs/rclone.md) instead; usually a bit
 ## to run this on windows:
 * install [winfsp](https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/releases/latest) and [python 3](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
   * [x] add python 3.x to PATH (it asks during install)
-* `python -m pip install --user fusepy` (or grab a copy of `fuse.py` from the `connect` page on your copyparty, and keep it in the same folder)
+* `python -m pip install --user mfusepy` (or grab a copy of `mfusepy.py` from the `connect` page on your copyparty, and keep it in the same folder)
 * `python ./partyfuse.py n: http://192.168.1.69:3923/`
 
 10% faster in [msys2](https://www.msys2.org/), 700% faster if debug prints are enabled:
 * `pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-python{,-pip}`
-* `/mingw64/bin/python3 -m pip install --user fusepy`
+* `/mingw64/bin/python3 -m pip install --user mfusepy`
 * `/mingw64/bin/python3 ./partyfuse.py [...]`
 
 you could replace winfsp with [dokan](https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/releases/latest), let me know if you [figure out how](https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/FUSE)  
diff --git a/bin/partyfuse.py b/bin/partyfuse.py
index 7be355e1..4b6ab90e 100755
--- a/bin/partyfuse.py
+++ b/bin/partyfuse.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ usage:
   python partyfuse.py http://192.168.1.69:3923/  ./music
 
 dependencies:
-  python3 -m pip install --user fusepy  # or grab it from the connect page
+  python3 -m pip install --user mfusepy  # or grab it from the connect page
   + on Linux: sudo apk add fuse
   + on Macos: https://osxfuse.github.io/
   + on Windows: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/releases/latest
@@ -92,8 +92,13 @@ is_dbg = False
 
 
 try:
-    from fuse import FUSE, FuseOSError, Operations
+    from mfusepy import FUSE, FuseOSError, Operations
 except:
+    try:
+        from fuse import FUSE, FuseOSError, Operations
+    except:
+        FUSE = None
+
     if WINDOWS:
         libfuse = "install https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/releases/latest"
     elif MACOS:
@@ -102,12 +107,13 @@ except:
         libfuse = "apt install libfuse2\n    modprobe fuse"
 
     m = """\033[33m
-  could not import fuse; these may help:
-    {} -m pip install --user fusepy
+  could not import mfusepy; these may help:
+    {} -m pip install --user mfusepy
     {}
 \033[0m"""
-    print(m.format(sys.executable, libfuse))
-    raise
+    if not FUSE:
+        print(m.format(sys.executable, libfuse))
+        raise
 
 
 def termsafe(txt):
@@ -143,10 +149,10 @@ def fancy_log(fmt, *a):
 
 
 def register_wtf8():
-    def wtf8_enc(text):
+    def wtf8_enc(text, errors=""):
         return str(text).encode("utf-8", "surrogateescape"), len(text)
 
-    def wtf8_dec(binary):
+    def wtf8_dec(binary, errors=""):
         return bytes(binary).decode("utf-8", "surrogateescape"), len(binary)
 
     def wtf8_search(encoding_name):
diff --git a/copyparty/__init__.py b/copyparty/__init__.py
index 8bffed86..a698107c 100644
--- a/copyparty/__init__.py
+++ b/copyparty/__init__.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ web/deps/busy.mp3
 web/deps/easymde.css
 web/deps/easymde.js
 web/deps/marked.js
-web/deps/fuse.py
+web/deps/mfusepy.py
 web/deps/mini-fa.css
 web/deps/mini-fa.woff
 web/deps/prism.css
diff --git a/copyparty/web/svcs.html b/copyparty/web/svcs.html
index bf1c1517..5daa5d22 100644
--- a/copyparty/web/svcs.html
+++ b/copyparty/web/svcs.html
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
         <h1>partyfuse</h1>
         <p>
             <a href="{{ r }}/.cpr/a/partyfuse.py">partyfuse.py</a> -- fast, read-only,
-            needs <a href="{{ r }}/.cpr/w/deps/fuse.py">fuse.py</a> in the same folder,
+            needs <a href="{{ r }}/.cpr/w/deps/mfusepy.py">mfusepy.py</a> in the same folder,
             <span class="os win">needs <a href="https://winfsp.dev/rel/">winfsp</a></span>
             <span class="os lin">doesn't need root</span>
         </p>
diff --git a/docs/devnotes.md b/docs/devnotes.md
index afb86d9f..a1d90d8c 100644
--- a/docs/devnotes.md
+++ b/docs/devnotes.md
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ some third-party code has been vendored into the git repo; some for convenience,
   * `dnslib` (MIT) may be deleted and replaced with a systemwide install of the original [dnslib](https://github.com/paulc/dnslib/), HOWEVER:
     * will cause problems for mDNS in some network environments; 6c1cf68bca7376c6291c3cfe710ebd5bd5ed3e6c + 94d1924fa97e5faaf1ebfd85cae73faebcb89fa1
 
-* inside the folder `/copyparty/web/deps` (only in distributed archives/builds) is [fuse.py](https://github.com/fusepy/fusepy/blob/master/fuse.py), to make it downloadable from the connect-page on the web-ui
+* inside the folder `/copyparty/web/deps` (only in distributed archives/builds) is [mfusepy.py](https://github.com/mxmlnkn/mfusepy/blob/master/mfusepy.py) (sizegolfed, no important changes), to make it downloadable from the connect-page on the web-ui
 
 * inside the folder `/copyparty/web` (only in distributed archives/builds) is a collection of javascript libraries (produced by [deps-docker](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/tree/hovudstraum/scripts/deps-docker)) which are used clientside by the web-UI:
   * [marked.js](https://github.com/markedjs/marked/releases) (MIT) powers the markdown editor, and has been [patched](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/scripts/deps-docker/marked-ln.patch) to include the line-numbers of each input line, to enable scroll-sync between the editor and the preview-pane. This patch is [not strictly necessary anymore](https://github.com/markedjs/marked/issues/2134) but I haven't gotten around to making the change yet
diff --git a/docs/lics.txt b/docs/lics.txt
index cf1edd2f..7380eada 100644
--- a/docs/lics.txt
+++ b/docs/lics.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic/
 C: 2001-2014 Adam Hupp
 L: MIT
 
-https://github.com/fusepy/fusepy
+https://github.com/mxmlnkn/mfusepy
 C: 2012 Giorgos Verigakis
 L: ISC
 
diff --git a/scripts/deps-docker/Dockerfile b/scripts/deps-docker/Dockerfile
index 9f236e88..6f8663e8 100644
--- a/scripts/deps-docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/scripts/deps-docker/Dockerfile
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ RUN     mkdir -p /z/dist/no-pk \
         && wget https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/sourcecodepro/v11/HI_SiYsKILxRpg3hIP6sJ7fM7PqlPevW.woff2 -O scp.woff2 \
         && apk add \
                 bash brotli cmake make g++ git gzip lame npm patch pigz \
-                python3 python3-dev py3-brotli sox tar unzip wget \
+                python3 python3-dev py3-pip py3-brotli sox tar unzip wget \
         && rm -f /usr/lib/python3*/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED \
+        && pip install strip_hints \
         && wget https://github.com/markedjs/marked/archive/v$ver_marked.tar.gz -O marked.tgz \
         && wget https://github.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor/archive/$ver_mde.tar.gz -O mde.tgz \
         && wget https://github.com/codemirror/codemirror5/archive/$ver_codemirror.tar.gz -O codemirror.tgz \
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ RUN     mkdir -p /z/dist/no-pk \
         && wget https://github.com/google/zopfli/archive/zopfli-$ver_zopfli.tar.gz -O zopfli.tgz \
         && wget https://github.com/Daninet/hash-wasm/releases/download/v$ver_hashwasm/hash-wasm@$ver_hashwasm.zip -O hash-wasm.zip \
         && wget https://github.com/PrismJS/prism/archive/refs/tags/v$ver_prism.tar.gz -O prism.tgz \
-        && wget https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/04/0b/4506cb2e831cea4b0214d3625430e921faaa05a7fb520458c75a2dbd2152/fusepy-3.0.1.tar.gz -O fusepy.tgz \
+        && wget https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/91/47/746287c8962274f73ee25edb3840d80899464bfffbe2c435424c2d60a071/mfusepy-3.1.1.tar.gz -O mfusepy.tgz \
         && (mkdir hash-wasm \
             && cd hash-wasm \
             && unzip ../hash-wasm.zip) \
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ RUN     mkdir -p /z/dist/no-pk \
             && npm i gulp-cli -g ) \
         && tar --no-same-owner -xf dompurify.tgz \
         && tar --no-same-owner -xf prism.tgz \
-        && tar --no-same-owner -xf fusepy.tgz \
+        && tar --no-same-owner -xf mfusepy.tgz \
         && unzip fontawesome.zip \
         && tar --no-same-owner -xf zopfli.tgz
 
@@ -148,16 +149,22 @@ RUN     cd /z/dist \
         && rmdir no-pk
 
 
-# build fusepy
-COPY    uncomment.py /z
-RUN     mv /z/fusepy-3.0.1/fuse.py /z/dist/f1 \
+# build mfusepy -- just sizegolfing for the sfx, mfusepy.py works fine as-is
+COPY    uncomment.py unhint.py /z
+RUN     mv /z/mfusepy-3.1.1/mfusepy.py /z/dist/ \
         && cd /z/dist \
+        && python3 /z/unhint.py \
+        && mv mfusepy.py f1 \
         && python3 /z/uncomment.py f1 \
-        && sed -ri '/self.__critical_exception = e/d' f1 \
-        && awk '/^log =/{s=0} !s; /^from traceback im/{s=1;print"from functools import partial";print"basestring = str"}' <f1 >f2 \
-        && awk '/LoggingMixIn:/{exit} --s<0;/self.use_ns = getattr/{s=7}' <f2 >f1 \
-        && awk "/if _machine =/{s=0} /'(mips|ppc|ppc64)'/{s=1} !s" <f1 >f2 \
-        && rm f1 && mv f2 fuse.py
+        && sed -ri '/self.__critical_exception/d; /^from (typing|collections.abc) import/d' f1 \
+        && sed -ri '/^(FieldsEntry|BitFieldsEntry|ReadDirResult) =/d' f1 \
+        && awk "/if TYPE_CHECKING:/{s=1;sub(/TYPE_CHECKING/,"1");print}!s;/else:/{s=0}" <f1 >f2 \
+        && awk '/^def _nullable_dummy_function/{print"class Operations:\n    pass";exit};1' <f2 >f1 \
+        && awk '/^# Note that/{s=3} --s<0; /self.use_ns = getattr/{s=16}' <f1 >f2 \
+        && awk "/if _machine =/{s=0} /_machine == '(mips|ppc|ppc64)'/{s=1} !s" <f2 >f1 \
+        && awk '/else:/{s=0} /elif _system == .NetBSD/{s=1} !s' <f1 >f2 \
+        && awk '/^if _system == .NetBSD_False/{s=1;print"if 0:\n    pass"} /^elif/{s=0} !s' <f2 >f1 \
+        && rm f2 && mv f1 mfusepy.py
 
 
 # git diff -U2 --no-index marked-1.1.0-orig/ marked-1.1.0-edit/ -U2 | sed -r '/^index /d;s`^(diff --git a/)[^/]+/(.* b/)[^/]+/`\1\2`; s`^(---|\+\+\+) ([ab]/)[^/]+/`\1 \2`' > ../dev/copyparty/scripts/deps-docker/marked-ln.patch
diff --git a/scripts/deps-docker/Makefile b/scripts/deps-docker/Makefile
index dcd1f03f..63043a2e 100644
--- a/scripts/deps-docker/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/deps-docker/Makefile
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ vend := $(self)/../../copyparty/web/deps
 
 all:
 	cp -pv ../uncomment.py .
+	cp -pv ../strip_hints/a.py unhint.py
 
 	docker build -t build-copyparty-deps .
 
diff --git a/scripts/docker/Makefile b/scripts/docker/Makefile
index 26c7d8e3..e36e3d45 100644
--- a/scripts/docker/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/docker/Makefile
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ hclean:
 purge:
 	-docker kill `docker ps -q`
 	-docker rm   `docker ps -qa`
-	-docker rmi  `docker images -qa`
+	-docker rmi  `docker images -qa` -f
 
 sh:
 	@printf "\n\033[1;31mopening a shell in the most recently created docker image\033[0m\n"
diff --git a/scripts/sfx.ls b/scripts/sfx.ls
index 66ad6133..eb24b478 100644
--- a/scripts/sfx.ls
+++ b/scripts/sfx.ls
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ copyparty/web/deps/__init__.py,
 copyparty/web/deps/busy.mp3,
 copyparty/web/deps/easymde.css,
 copyparty/web/deps/easymde.js,
-copyparty/web/deps/fuse.py,
+copyparty/web/deps/mfusepy.py,
 copyparty/web/deps/marked.js,
 copyparty/web/deps/mini-fa.css,
 copyparty/web/deps/mini-fa.woff,