I’d go one step further. This kind of ‘tool’ is not fixing a problem that doesn’t exist. It is actively causing a problem that didn’t exist, and doesn’t need to (along with the charlatans peddling the AI application-slop ‘services’). I’ve heard from hiring managers of people trying things like this, and it:

1. Categorically does not work, no-one is fooled
2. Results in extra barriers needing to be erected.

Ultimately, it makes an already brutal interview landscape 1000x worse, for no benefit to anyone.

And even if you did somehow manage to, once you’re actually doing the job, you’d get found out pretty quickly… I’ve heard of people trying this nonsense, and there is no scenario where it works put for anyone, it wastes everyone’s time, and just puts up more barriers to stop genuine hard working people accessing the jobs that actually fit them. Yes, the interview landscape can be brutal at the moment, but ‘tools’ like this are the problem, not the solution.

Popup ads? Where are they? That’s not something I’ve heard of, but then I always use an adblocker…

I used it for years on a raspberry pi, and it was great, very easy to manage storages and different ways of sharing over a network.

If you are after a Debian based system, with an interface for file server/backups/network storage, with a (web) interface, you are pretty much describing https://www.openmediavault.org/ . Decent plugin ecosystem to set up Wireguard, as well as a web interface to set up docker based containers for anything.