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.

Synology: Install Transmission With Portainer

23 August 202522 February 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

My previous guide for Transmission involved the use of Task Scheduler. Today I’m offering a recommended and excellent alternative for installing the latest Transmission version via Portainer. Transmission is designed for easy, powerful use. Transmission has the features you want from a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web interface, peer exchange, magnet links, DHT, µTP, UPnP and NAT-PMP … Read more about Synology: Install Transmission With Portainer

How to Install Gitea on Your Synology NAS

25 December 202522 February 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Gitea is a painless self-hosted Git service written in GO, and very lightweight. It is somewhat similar to GitHub, Bitbucket and Gitlab. As well as support for Git revision control, it also provides issue tracking and wiki pages development. If you are looking for an alternative to Gitea, check out my article for Forgejo. In … Read more about How to Install Gitea on Your Synology NAS

How to Install GPT4FREE on Your Synology NAS

7 January 202622 February 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

GPT4FREE is an app initiative that aims to provide educational access to advanced language models. The focus is on providing the community with tools and resources to leverage the power of AI for various use cases, such as content creation, research, and automation, in a manner that is easily accessible. You can use it for … Read more about How to Install GPT4FREE on Your Synology NAS

How to Install ezBookkeeping on Your Synology NAS

26 December 202522 February 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

EzBookkeeping is a lightweight personal bookkeeping app hosted by yourself. Key features include support for multiple currencies, time zones, and languages, as well as advanced functionalities such as scheduled transactions, transaction imports from formats like OFX, QFX, QIF, and CSV, and trend analysis by month, quarter, or year. Open-source and actively maintained, ezBookkeeping provides a … Read more about How to Install ezBookkeeping on Your Synology NAS

How to Install Teable on Your Synology NAS

23 December 202521 February 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Teable is a super fast, real-time, professional, developer-friendly, no-code database built on PostgreSQL. It uses a simple, spreadsheet-like interface to create complex enterprise-level database applications. Unlock efficient app development with no code, free from data security and scalability hurdles. You can think of it as migrating the powerful capabilities of Airtable onto PostgreSQL while inheriting … Read more about How to Install Teable on Your Synology NAS

How to Install Obsidian on Your Synology NAS

15 December 202521 February 2025 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Obsidian is a personal knowledge base and note-taking software application that operates on Markdown files. It allows users to make internal links for notes and then to visualize the connections as a graph. It is designed to help users organize and structure their thoughts and knowledge in a flexible, non-linear way. In this step by … Read more about How to Install Obsidian on Your Synology NAS