Accessing Files Remotely with the Nemo File Manager

Recently I was reading a post about all those things the Dolphin file manager can do except local file management. Quite often we forget that modern file managers have been able to manage files remotely and integrate protocols like FTP and accessing Samba shares since, well, for ever. The article about browsing shares securely with the fish protocol using ssh got me checking whether Nemo, the file manager in Cinnamon, can do this as well.

Upgrading Ubuntu Server 16.04 Droplet on DigitalOcean to 18.04

About five years ago I decided I need a remote server for backup and cloud services that are more under my control than when using the big names and free or even paid for storage space out there and after a long look around went for a Ubuntu droplet on DigitalOcean. Ubuntu 14.04 'Trusty' was the latest LTS release then and systemd wasn't an issue yet. I had used Ubuntu in the old days and am very familiar with Debian which explains the choice, not going for Fedora or CentOS. FreeBSD was and still is another option but due to often changing client side installations I wanted something that doesn't require an ssh key to log on.