Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Marius Bogdan Lixandru is a highly experienced content creator from Romania with a background in biology, chemistry and computer programming. He loves writing technical guides that are accessible for non-technical people. Born in 1984, he has always expressed interest in technology. Beyond technology and biology, he has a passion for agriculture, the science and beauty of which have encouraged him to start his own vegetable garden and plant dozens of fruit-bearing trees with fragrant and succulent, sweet and sour fruits. When heā€™s not losing nights uncovering the deepest hidden secrets of the latest tech devices, heā€™s likely enjoying a refreshing slice of juicy, honey-sweet watermelon, sluggishly lying on the grass in his orchard, sitting in the shade under the trees he himself has planted. Torpid summer days accompanied by cicada sounds and greeted by his smiling wife and happy, tail-wagging presence of his two mioritic shepherd dogs are some of the simpler pleasures in life that help him recharge his batteries to take on the latest tech challenges. Support My Work and Feel free to contact me.

How to Install Grimmory on Your Asustor NAS

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How to Install Grimmory on Your Asustor NAS device

Grimmory is a self-hosted application for managing your entire book collection in one place. It lets you organize books with smart rule-based shelves and full-text search, fetch metadata automatically, read and annotate PDFs/EPUBs/comics in a built-in browser, sync progress across devices (including Kobo and KOReader via OPDS), support multiple users, import books automatically from watched … Read more about How to Install Grimmory on Your Asustor NAS

How to Install Galley on Your Synology NAS

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How to Install Galley on Your Synology NAS

Galley is a personal, non-commercial web client for reading Reddit. It is a SvelteKit application that renders Reddit through a custom typographic interface, feeds, subreddits, threads, using Reddit’s public JSON endpoints. The visual direction is contemporary editorial. Newspaper-influenced typography, hairline rules in place of cards, a serif for headlines and body text, a restrained sans … Read more about How to Install Galley on Your Synology NAS

How to Install SnapOtter on Your UGREEN NAS

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How to Install SnapOtter on Your UGREEN NAS

SnapOtter is a fully self-hosted image manipulation platform that runs 100% locally in a single Docker container. It combines 47 image processing tools, powerful local AI models for background removal, upscaling, photo restoration, and more, plus flexible pipelines for building reusable batch workflows. Everything stays completely private on your hardware with zero cloud dependency, so … Read more about How to Install SnapOtter on Your UGREEN NAS

How to Install SnapOtter on Your Synology NAS

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How to Install SnapOtter on Your Synology NAS

SnapOtter is a fully self-hosted image manipulation platform that runs 100% locally in a single Docker container. It combines 47 image processing tools, powerful local AI models for background removal, upscaling, photo restoration, and more, plus flexible pipelines for building reusable batch workflows. Everything stays completely private on your hardware with zero cloud dependency, so … Read more about How to Install SnapOtter on Your Synology NAS