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 he’s not losing nights uncovering the deepest hidden secrets of the latest tech devices, he’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.

ArtCraft on UGREEN NAS: Free Open-Source Apps (PhotoCraft & More)

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ArtCraft on UGREEN NAS Free Open-Source Apps (PhotoCraft & More)

ArtCraft’s Crafting Apps bring a full suite of free, open-source creative and productivity tools to your UGREEN NAS. The project currently includes 13 native apps like PhotoCraft, VectorCraft, FilmCraft, LightCraft, PdfCraft, EffectCraft, DesignCraft, FigCraft, WordCraft, SoundCraft, DeckCraft, CADCraft, and GridCraft. Each of them is written from scratch in Rust as a clean-room alternative to familiar … Read more about ArtCraft on UGREEN NAS: Free Open-Source Apps (PhotoCraft & More)

ArtCraft on Synology NAS: Free Open-Source Apps (PhotoCraft & More)

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ArtCraft on Synology NAS Free Open-Source Apps (PhotoCraft & More)

ArtCraft’s Crafting Apps bring a full suite of free, open-source creative and productivity tools to your Synology NAS. The project currently includes 13 native apps like PhotoCraft, VectorCraft, FilmCraft, LightCraft, PdfCraft, EffectCraft, DesignCraft, FigCraft, WordCraft, SoundCraft, DeckCraft, CADCraft, and GridCraft. Each of them is written from scratch in Rust as a clean-room alternative to familiar … Read more about ArtCraft on Synology NAS: Free Open-Source Apps (PhotoCraft & More)

How to Install Monline on Your Synology NAS

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How to Install Monline on Your Synology NAS

Monline is a self-hosted application for tracking subscriptions, recurring payments, and budgets. It pairs a React frontend with a Node.js server and embedded SQLite storage, offering subscription management with automatic logos and flexible billing, a payment calendar, budget overviews, payment insights, bank statement imports from services like Enpara, DenizBank, and Garanti BBVA, multi-language support, themes, … Read more about How to Install Monline on Your Synology NAS

PHP CVE-2026-115560: Synology Users Covered by MariusHosting

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PHP CVE-2026-115560 Synology Users Covered by MariusHosting

Hey, everyone! Today, October 23, 2026, PHP published a new informational advisory about CVE-2026-115560, a separate remote code execution vector related to the session.upload_progress feature. This is not a bypass of the PHP2Shell patches (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) released on October 21, 2026. It is a different issue that only affects a very specific and uncommon … Read more about PHP CVE-2026-115560: Synology Users Covered by MariusHosting

Portainer CE 2.45.3 LTS Released: Security Fixes & How to Update

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Portainer CE 2.45.3 LTS Released Security Fixes & How to Update

On October 22, 2026, the Portainer team released the third maintenance update to the current Long Term Support line, moving from 2.45.2 LTS to 2.45.3 LTS. This is a classic LTS patch release: focused on security hardening, dependency updates, and small stability improvements rather than big new features. For anyone running Portainer on a Synology … Read more about Portainer CE 2.45.3 LTS Released: Security Fixes & How to Update