fix: turns out teh solutin was just to enable another feature

Cargo.lock

@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "blocking",
  "futures-lite",
  "once_cell",
+ "tokio",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1836,6 +1837,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "libm",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "num_cpus"
+version = "1.16.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4161fcb6d602d4d2081af7c3a45852d875a03dd337a6bfdd6e06407b61342a43"
+dependencies = [
+ "hermit-abi",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "once_cell"
 version = "1.17.1"
@@ -3161,6 +3172,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "libc",
  "mio",
+ "num_cpus",
  "pin-project-lite 0.2.9",
  "socket2 0.4.9",
  "tokio-macros",

Cargo.toml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ dotenvy = "0.15.7"
 
 # For tide
 tide = "0.16.0"
-async-std = { version = "1.12.0", features = ["attributes"] }
+async-std = { version = "1", features = ["attributes", "tokio1"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 
 # For sqlite