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.

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.

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 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.

The features they are talking about are things like:

enable the webcam

Do you really want a man-in-the-middle attack inserting some extra Javascript when you enable the webcam on some site ?

I would think the answer is: no

When he did what he did he wasn't the CEO, it was years before that and the law said he had to mention his employers name when he donates.

If it wasn't the law I pretty sure he wouldn't have even mentioned Mozilla it would just be him donating money.

Recently someone found out a virtual nose helps a lot, so maybe that will help:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...