They aren’t a junior dev yet. They’re looking for a job as a junior dev and have been unsuccessful at finding a job as a junior dev.

Zabbix
https://www.zabbix.com/

Netdata
https://www.netdata.cloud/

Nagios
https://www.nagios.org/

SeaTools is a long-standing, trusted tool for HDD testing. I always have a bootable drive with the SeaTools bootable image on me for diagnosing hard drives.

https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/seatools-legacy-support/

Keep in mind that testing a failing drive will likely make a failing drive worse. For your use-case this is fine, but for anyone else looking to test drives, please create a backup image of the drive prior to testing.

Maybe I’m just old school and distro package means something different to me, but here is a link to the Home Assistant .deb distro package:

https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/releases/latest/download/homeassistant-supervised.deb