I hear your struggle. I have been on both sides of this fence, recently. Obnoxious interview hoops to jump through and otherwise promising candidates reading verbatim from chatgpt mid interview :/

I would also feel really belittled by tracking software like that (but also probably try a VM, which I assume would get around their trackers anyway, lol).

I do agree with others, a company will get a small amount of hours from me for take home and no more. Be worth my time, earn my respect

I’m using Asahi on an M1 Air I got for like $400 recently. Is legit, super easy install. Don’t have HDMI support, unfortunately, but that’s not the worst thing. I wish I liked more of the hardware of linux laptop manufacturers :( I tried to support various ones a few times but they are all just “adequate-at-best” laptops in terms of battery, keyboard, audio, screen, etc