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:
+1 for Brozime. Great content creator and all of his videos for warframes and weapons usually have a budget-build more accessible to new players. He does a free-to-play run almost yearly and he’s due for another one soon since some minor things have changed.
Watch his free-to-play run and join a clan to help get up to speed.
I know you already found a solution, but fwiw, it seems you have a typo in calling the extension. You have “stats” plural instead of “stat” singular.
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.