Not saying the web is for everything, just saying it can be the solution for very, very many situations.

Maybe large complex 3D models is a niche application which the web can't or won't fill.

- you are partly talking about niche users: it's the same situation as: most people working at an office aren't developers that need big workstations. Yes, these people are important, but they don't represent the general public. Certain organizations have certain workloads that only run well on mainframes. You might not believe it, but I believe the mainframes market was even growing a in 2013, haven't really followed it lately though. That doesn't mean that mainframes will be the next trend.

- you mentioned: 3D. You might not have noticed but more than 75% of website visitors now have working WebGL stack, which means a working: browser, underlying hardware, OS and graphics drivers. I'll tell you something else: browser makers are now working on WebVR, thus this time they are working on this before consumer hardware has been released.

- offline support: there was a very large 'installed base' of existing web applications which didn't have good offline support. It took web developers some time to find good models to do though. This has improved and is still improving, for example browser vendors are adding a new API as well.

- what a lot of people don't seem to understand is that you don't need to store the data with the (web)application either:
https://remotestorage.io/ https://unhosted.org/

So I won't say it isn't possible to build the webapplications for the catagories you mentioned. And some also exist.

BUT: I do think it would be better if I can just download a Linux container (with this server-/web-application I need) and run it on the server of my choice.

I would go a step further on the offline topic, many developers needed time to get used to the idea of how to go about this and good patterns needed to spread.

And the browser vendors are still improving things by adding new and better APIs like service worker.

In every single, and I mean without exception, every single consulting company that I worked for/with the "security specialists" were full of shit assholes. The guys who were in charge of the actual network were very well trained and capable security people but they weren't marketing themselves as specialists. The security guys just spouted endless paranoia and blah blah'd about military grade security. Yet when put to a test not a single one of them could exploit a linux system that hadn't had an upgrade in a year.

What they didn't have in skill they made up in swagger and threats. If consultants in the company didn't submit their laptops to them for a security audit they got all shitty saying how our laziness would take down the company. So my solution was to hand them a laptop that I would get fresh from IT with nothing installed, no documents, and fully up to date. Then I would laugh at their report where they would say that I had all kinds of unencrypted documents and had installed insecure software on the laptop. Then when I showed this to upper management they got even angrier that I had wasted what otherwise would have been valuable billing hours, even though it was they who wanted to audit all the computers.

But the thing that finally broke their stranglehold over the company's management was when they bullied their way into a friend's project devastating his budget after they convinced the client he was working for that his unaudited system would leave their company wide open. So he made a mirror image of their laptop from a backup, changed the background to a picture of two guys having sex with the company logo of the client on the face of the guy getting it and a picture of the security "expert" over the face of the guy giving it. Then on the way to the meeting he swapped laptops. Security expert was fired that day.

When you say post-scarcity in other words you are saying abundance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In this video it's explained how the price of solar power is on a similar Moore's law-track like a lot of electronics.

And if you have cheap solar power, you have cheap power, when you have cheap power can convert salt/unclean water to clean water cheaply. When you have cheap water and power you can grow food pretty darn cheaply.

What they didn't know when they made the video is that energy storage is also on a Moore's law track:
http://rameznaam.com/2015/04/1...

The prediction in 2014 was: grid-parity in Germany in summer of 2016
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/...

Now that really is abundance:
- cheap electronics
- cheap computing
- cheap decentralized power
- cheap power storage
- cheap water
- cheap food
- we already have cheap software with free- and open source software
- silicon photonics was delayed by one year says Intel, but supposedly we should have cheap networking and other connections too.

And they think they can make at least certain parts of health care cheap too.

Now it isn't all great there are big society challenges ahead when automation takes away all the simple tasks and keep moving up the ladder.

If the supreme court rules against your law there should be an instant by-election for anyone who voted for the stupid law in question.

I would rather see most apps just use intents:

http://developer.android.com/g...

Need an image because you are the QR-code app ? Ask the image 'app'. The user can pick to choose the camera app and make a picture if he/she wants or grab an image from the image gallery app.

Need a contact ? Ask the contact 'app'.

Now most apps don't need any permissions any more. And the user knows what data the app gets because the user chooses the data and the app the data came from.

Yes, seems desktop environments on Debian have some dependencies on systemd.

Anyway, kFreeBSD on the server should be fine.

I checked the 10+ years selection yet literally tomorrow I am switching. But most interestingly I am dumping not only my ISP but my phone line with it. The new ISP will be giving me internet only and I will be getting my phone from an online service. The savings will be around $40 per month.

This is a couple of years after dumping my cable for Netflix.

So what I want now is some kind of data service that lets me cut off my ISP. I don't know how that would work but I suspect that 10+ years ago the cable/telephone companies didn't see much of a threat from anyone.

I agree Mozilla made a bad choice making him CEO, but I guess they didn't know about what they did...? I don't remember if that applies.

That last part is a bunch of bull shit.

You can run Debian without systemd with the Linux kernel just fine.

So kFreeBSD and Hurd can run without systemd just fine too.

Even if that foreign government uses your website to attack US companies ?

It might seem as if there is nothing changing under the hood, but people are actually working on improving things and actually making sure CA's can't issue certificates for your website you didn't want to be issued:

http://www.certificate-transpa...

https://developer.mozilla.org/... (available in the release version of Firefox and Chrome)

https://blog.mozilla.org/secur... (available in the release version of Firefox, Chrome already had something similar)

https://blog.mozilla.org/secur...

https://www.grc.com/revocation...

What you're website is serving has no relationship to what the browser gets if they do a man-in-the-middle attack and change the content.

I believe an exception for localhost is included.