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 CTRoadmap on Your UGREEN NAS

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How to Install CTRoadmap on Your UGREEN NAS

CTRoadmap is a local-first, Docker-based web application for creating and maintaining an interactive infrastructure atlas. It lets homelab and self-hosted users visually map servers, nodes, services, storage, containers, scripts, configs, URLs, and relationships on a canvas, while maintaining rich documentation in a human-readable JSON file. Key aspects include a flexible canvas editor with layers, families, … Read more about How to Install CTRoadmap on Your UGREEN NAS

How to Install Lunarr on Your Asustor NAS

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How to Install Lunarr on Your Asustor NAS

Lunarr is a self-hosted media streaming server and Plex alternative that lets you organize, scan, and stream your movie and TV show libraries from local disks, SFTP, or WebDAV. It automatically matches files with TMDb metadata, supports direct play and on-the-fly HLS transcoding with FFmpeg (including hardware acceleration), sidecar subtitles, Chromecast, and AirPlay. Built for … Read more about How to Install Lunarr on Your Asustor NAS

How to Install CTRoadmap on Your Synology NAS

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How to Install CTRoadmap on Your Synology NAS

CTRoadmap is a local-first, Docker-based web application for creating and maintaining an interactive infrastructure atlas. It lets homelab and self-hosted users visually map servers, nodes, services, storage, containers, scripts, configs, URLs, and relationships on a canvas, while maintaining rich documentation in a human-readable JSON file. Key aspects include a flexible canvas editor with layers, families, … Read more about How to Install CTRoadmap on Your Synology NAS

How to Install NoteDiscovery on Your Asustor NAS

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How to Install NoteDiscovery on Your Asustor NAS

NoteDiscovery is a lightweight, self-hosted knowledge base and note-taking app that gives you full control over your data. It lets you write, organize, and discover notes using plain Markdown files, with a beautiful modern interface, instant search, graph view, backlinks, favorites, drawing support, MathJax, themes, plugins, and optional authentication, all running locally on your server … Read more about How to Install NoteDiscovery on Your Asustor NAS

How to Install OmniSight on Your Synology NAS

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How to Install OmniSight on Your Synology NAS

OmniSight is a lightweight, single-page monitoring dashboard that provides a unified, at-a-glance view of diverse infrastructure including Proxmox, Linux/Windows servers, Kubernetes, Docker, SNMP devices, firewalls, databases, storage systems, and services like Uptime Kuma, Prometheus, and Healthchecks. It features a modern responsive UI with draggable cards, real-time metrics, history charts, live logs, service controls, alerts via … Read more about How to Install OmniSight on Your Synology NAS