Stay there, do nothing, take the paycheck and work on yourself:
- brush up on your skills
- start / contribute to a few projects, create a portfolio (I don't know what's your work experience)
- start applying for jobs <- maybe I should have started with this.
You owe nothing to that company, at the end of the day you're just one name in someone's Excel file, the whole "family at work" trend is something awful that should not have been born, so you better get out of that.
https://app.diagrams.net/ -> this one has a big shapes library, so it can go from UML to cloud diagrams, it's also easy to use and a lot of export options
I fully agree with you, but it's still a PC, although not envisioned for the power users, but for the people who just need to do the most basic of stuff (e-mails, maybe a few documents, etc.), that's what a ~6W CPU can deliver.
or the myriad of SBC-based computers like this. The only thing you should do is to install an OS, which is something everybody tends to do and succeed nowadays.
He's probably referring to other products, but it seems he overlooked the SBC, which come in all forms and sizes and, generally, being low power devices, can't really do much besides hosting some not so demanding apps (looking at containers).
You owe nothing to that company, at the end of the day you're just one name in someone's Excel file, the whole "family at work" trend is something awful that should not have been born, so you better get out of that.
Good luck!