

With the moron being an absentee CEO at multiple companies that the moron is supposedly the CEO of… what would it take for the board of each company to fire him? CEO’s get fired all the time for reasons the board comes up with randomly.
Any other CEO would have been fired a long time ago for dragging the company monetary value down as much as Twitter has, for example.
Not European so I can’t answer that part.
If you are only looking at running Home Assistant, why not look at one of their own boxes? Such as the Home Assistant Yellow. Or maybe something along the lines of a 1 liter PC such as the OptiPlex 3070 or whatever the best bang for the buck is on eBay nowadays.