He can do a Trump with them. Just fire them. It would be an official act, so he would be allowed to do it. Didn’t one of your presidents say something about ‘how many army divisions do the SCOTUS have’?

Oh, really? I guess I’ll have to check the EEPROM stuff…

You can leave just the /boot partition in the SD and put the root fs in an external USB drive (SSD or mechanical).

I’have a SIMH emulation farm running inside a Pi3 which has been up literally for years. Zero trouble.

Tell me more about option 4.