diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index a8de041c..271da332 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Installing build dependencies
       run: ./install_dependencies.sh
     - name: Installing msgq
-      run: SCONS_EXTRAS=1 pip install --break-system-packages --no-cache-dir .[dev]
+      run: SCONS_EXTRAS=1 pip3 install --break-system-packages .[dev]
     - name: python tests
       run: ${{ matrix.backend }}=1 pytest --continue-on-collection-errors --cov --cov-report=xml --cov-append
     - name: C++ tests
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Installing build dependencies
       run: ./install_dependencies.sh
     - name: Installing msgq
-      run: pip3 install --break-system-packages --no-cache-dir .[dev]
+      run: pip3 install --break-system-packages .[dev]
     - name: Static analysis
       # TODO: a package pre-commit installs has a warning, remove the unset once that's fixed
       run: unset PYTHONWARNINGS && pre-commit run --all
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e914ef3..00000000
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-FROM ubuntu:24.04
-
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-    autoconf \
-    build-essential \
-    ca-certificates \
-    capnproto \
-    clang \
-    cppcheck \
-    curl \
-    git \
-    libbz2-dev \
-    libcapnp-dev \
-    libclang-rt-dev \
-    libffi-dev \
-    liblzma-dev \
-    libncurses5-dev \
-    libncursesw5-dev \
-    libreadline-dev \
-    libsqlite3-dev \
-    libssl-dev \
-    libtool \
-    libzmq3-dev \
-    llvm \
-    make \
-    cmake \
-    ocl-icd-opencl-dev \
-    opencl-headers  \
-    python3-dev \
-    python3-pip \
-    tk-dev \
-    wget \
-    xz-utils \
-    zlib1g-dev \
-  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-WORKDIR /project/msgq/
-RUN cd /tmp/ && \
-    git clone -b v2.x --depth 1 https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2.git && \
-    cd Catch2 && \
-    mv single_include/* /project/msgq/ && \
-    cd .. \
-    rm -rf Catch2
-
-WORKDIR /project/msgq
-
-ENV PYTHONPATH=/project
-
-COPY . .
-RUN ls && rm -rf .git && \
-    SCONS_EXTRAS=1 pip3 install --break-system-packages --no-cache-dir .[dev]