I came to get away from the main stream socials.

You still can. Just block threads.net instance in things like Mastodon and Lemmy.

I came to minimise my farmed data footprint.

Your data is public in fediverse. They can scrape even right as we speak.

I would need someone to confirm this, but I have heard that if you block, then it prevents their instance from scraping your data because they shouldn’t receive your content if they are blocked, but it doesn’t change the public data being available by other means anyways.

I came to find other like minded people.

Follow hashtags and communities that are your interest. Block users and/or instances you would rather not see or be part of. Also, you can find an instance that fits your values that is already blocking instances you disagree with.

I am mostly indifferent of Threads joining at this time, but those that are not in favor, there are options.

Got it. I know people have used the USB SSD for rpi4 too, which is probably fine, but if you want the new quicker route. pcie might be worth getting into… https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hatdrive-m2-hat-for-raspberry-pi-5

A lot of NAS that you buy now have “containers” where you can side load apps like plex or jellyfin for your you videos vs just installing on the main rpi OS.

Do you plan on doing anything special with the NAS (like containers) or just straight up NAS storage services?

If you are doing containers, I would probably say get the 8GB and get the 5 and use for NAS.

Actually, it looks like there is a setting to avoid the warning all together: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberry-pi-5.html#usb-boot-and-power-supplies

Thanks for that feedback. I also understand and have read that you are basically taking a bunch of tech that is it’s own tech in it’s own and then openstack glued it together (like you are stating).

I also see that there are many different projects in how you can deploy this too. Some say “don’t use ____ if you want multi node” and some are like “this _____ is the easiest to run”. Did you just use whatever Openstack suggested to install or did you use one of these other wrapper projects that helped too? I understand that some of this may have changed from 6 years ago though.

Don’t “need” to, no. I can put it on top, so that is what I planned to do to POC, but if I like it, I would rather not have software/resources taken up on top of resources. But I am asking if anyone has already done this either direction and their experience.