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Dude that is risky as hell, you use yay to install all of your things? With yay they have full permissions on your machine. Use pacman instead
What does that mean? When I've used yay, it only asks for sudo privileges when installing the package (and so does pacman)
I always use yay so I can easily find and use the history, the only time I use pacman without yay is to check the man page