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Welcome to Big Iron Radio · Big Iron Radio

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This is Big Iron Radio's short, practical audio for the people who run their own hardware.
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If you keep a home lab, self-host your own services, wrangle IT infrastructure, or run local AI on your own GPUs, this show is for you.
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Every episode takes one real decision, the kind you'd otherwise lose an evening to on a forum thread, and gives you the honest answer.
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ZFS or BTRFS.
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Allama or VLLM.
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A UPS that'll actually save your server, or the one that crashes it.
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Not a feature list of verdict, and the reasoning behind it.
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Most episodes are quick briefs.
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Two to four minutes, one topic, in and out.
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And at the start of each week, there's a longer, deep dive, for the big decisions worth sitting with.
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One thing you should know up front.
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This is an AI-generated voice, and every episode is adapted from a written guide over at Big Iron.
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If you want the full write-up every command, every config it's linked in the show notes, at bigiron.cc.
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New episodes drip through the week.
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Follow or subscribe in your podcast app, and I'll see you in the first one.