Wendell Wilson

Wendell from Level One Techs joins us to catch up on low-power hardware, his home automation setup, and thoughts on so much more.Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.Sponsored By:LogScale: Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free.Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshSupport Self-HostedLinks:Level One Techs — Go find more Wendell!A Look at the INTEL ARC A770 — A new challenger appears in the GPU arena! But do they have what it takes to compete? Wendell investigates!reTerminal CM4104032 — The reTerminal is a Human-Machine Interface facility, designed in modularization, offered multiple interfaces and components. It is your hand-size, powerful, Raspberry Pi-based all-in-one board, assisting you to develop individual IoT & AI projects and being ready to materialize industrial-level monitor and control functions.Presenting: Obsidian OCR 🎉 — Obsidian OCR allows you to search for text in the images and PDFs in your vault.AppFlowy.IO — You are in charge of your data and customizations.Joplin — Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device. Send a Boost into the Show — Upgrade to a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and Boost into the show.

We visit Wendell Wilson of Level1Techs and get a tour of his self-hosted setup, what he does and does not trust in the cloud, and we reminisce about the early days of computing and the internet. Plus we discuss craftsmanship in the Linux Kernel, and address the fundamental question of "why self-host."Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.Support Self-HostedLinks:Level One TechsChatting With Alex and Chris From The Self Hosted Podcast! - YouTubeSelf Hosted Pre-Launch Party | Meetup

In this episode, Brett and Mitch chat with Wendell Wilson, an IT consultant with Level1Techs. They discuss his background, homelab products, and share war stories from the field. They also cover topics such as the unpredictability of daily tasks, the value of home labs, AI upscaling, entrepreneurialism in unconventional locations, preferences for Proxmox and XCP, and the benefits of ZFS for data recovery.