diff --git a/benchmarks/cli.py b/benchmarks/cli.py
index 51fa49a..0e8856f 100644
--- a/benchmarks/cli.py
+++ b/benchmarks/cli.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 def cmd_list(experiments: Dict[str, ExperimentBuilder[Experiment]], _):
-    print(f'Available experiments are:')
+    print('Available experiments are:')
     for experiment in experiments.keys():
         print(f'  - {experiment}')
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def cmd_run(experiments: Dict[str, ExperimentBuilder[Experiment]], args):
 
 def cmd_describe(args):
     if not args.type:
-        print(f'Available experiment types are:')
+        print('Available experiment types are:')
         for experiment in config_parser.experiment_types.keys():
             print(f'  - {experiment}')
         return
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def _parse_config(config: Path) -> Dict[str, ExperimentBuilder[Experiment]]:
         try:
             return config_parser.parse(infile)
         except ValidationError as e:
-            print(f'There were errors parsing the config file.')
+            print('There were errors parsing the config file.')
             for error in e.errors():
                 print(f' - {error["loc"]}: {error["msg"]} {error["input"]}')
             sys.exit(-1)
diff --git a/benchmarks/conftest.py b/benchmarks/conftest.py
index e786c17..c928b36 100644
--- a/benchmarks/conftest.py
+++ b/benchmarks/conftest.py
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
+# ruff: noqa: F403
+
 from benchmarks.deluge.tests.fixtures import *
 from benchmarks.core.tests.fixtures import *
diff --git a/benchmarks/core/config.py b/benchmarks/core/config.py
index b5e8f1e..deadef3 100644
--- a/benchmarks/core/config.py
+++ b/benchmarks/core/config.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import os
 from abc import abstractmethod
 from io import TextIOBase
-from typing import Type, Dict, TextIO, Callable, cast
+from typing import Type, Dict, TextIO
 
 import yaml
 from typing_extensions import Generic, overload
diff --git a/benchmarks/core/experiments/experiments.py b/benchmarks/core/experiments/experiments.py
index bd46eeb..b0edc0c 100644
--- a/benchmarks/core/experiments/experiments.py
+++ b/benchmarks/core/experiments/experiments.py
@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@ import logging
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from collections.abc import Iterable
 from time import time, sleep
-from typing import Optional, List
+from typing import List
 
 from typing_extensions import Generic, TypeVar
 
-from benchmarks.core.utils import await_predicate
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/core/logging.py b/benchmarks/core/logging.py
index df23af0..aa8d7fe 100644
--- a/benchmarks/core/logging.py
+++ b/benchmarks/core/logging.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from csv import DictWriter
 from enum import Enum
 from json import JSONDecodeError
-from typing import Type, TextIO, Iterable, Callable, Dict, Tuple, cast, Any
+from typing import Type, TextIO, Iterable, Callable, Dict, Tuple, cast
 
 from pydantic import ValidationError, computed_field, Field
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/deluge/tests/test_deluge_node.py b/benchmarks/deluge/tests/test_deluge_node.py
index 63cac35..d44419a 100644
--- a/benchmarks/deluge/tests/test_deluge_node.py
+++ b/benchmarks/deluge/tests/test_deluge_node.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ def assert_is_seed(node: DelugeNode, name: str, size: int):
 
     assert info[b'name'] == name.encode('utf-8')  # not sure that this works for ANY name...
     assert info[b'total_size'] == size
-    assert info[b'is_seed'] == True
+    assert info[b'is_seed']
 
 
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