There have been, but most non-technical users don't care or don't go through the hassle of using them.

Is there any that I should be looking into?

F-droid is the biggest one

Check out droidify or neo store for a better front end to f-droid

I use Foxy Droid.

It's unfortunate the official f-droid client is an unusable mess. (I stopped using it years ago, maybe they fixed it.)

There's also f-droid classic, can't remember why I use foxy droid over it.

The Huawei AppGallery is hundreds of times bigger.

Sometimes several weeks in my recent submissions.

One of the sections is:

A profound economic transformation

In the extreme scenario, AI is more productive than humans at the vast majority of knowledge-work tasks. It does nearly all of them autonomously, and it creates essentially no new knowledge tasks for people. This scenario would likely require recursively self-improving AI, adopted quickly for knowledge work.

As AI diffuses, annual GDP growth rates reach 15% a year, leading the economy to double in size every 4.5 years. As a society, we’re far richer than we’ve ever been, but many fewer workers have jobs in knowledge work, and unemployment has risen beyond typical recessionary levels.

Mass automation will be disastrous for GDP in service economies. Service economies exist to provide services to other people who also provide services. If the services themselves get automated, you don't need that massive inefficient system to support service-providing workers anymore. GDP goes to zero.

I believe lot of "service" jobs are fundamentally make up work. Or not actually productive. Just there because it can be afforded. Or someone decided that it is "needed". Some amount of it produces net negative value. Some neutral and lot probably value we could even manage without it. Actual productive value is probably not that big part.

Now replace all that and you still produce same overall. Not more actual physical stuff.

I agree, but as long as we're measuring GDP, it's catastrophic.

It takes a while to actually login while it provisions some cloud infrastructure in your name. Let's see if it can build something interesting!

Still provisioning...

And, still provisioning 10 hours later.

In settings, enable Turbo Mode, and Auto-Approve, it will run without stopping for approvals.

I've been using Amazon ECR as an alternative source.

https://gallery.ecr.aws/

This is what's happened at my workplace. We account for time spent working on developing new products differently that development time maintaining legacy applications. Because they are reported for tax purposes differently.

> Because they are reported for tax purposes differently.

For software that used to be an option.

Sec 174 removes the option.

This gets really “gray”. I work on web software and we tend to deploy at the end of the day. Meaning only the smallest programs are “new” or not yet in service.

This is a mess.

Seems like maintenance is better and can be deducted in the same year?

Exactly

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Section 6.5 discusses non-payment by client, and charge backs.

https://www.upwork.com/legal#clientpayments

I think just to preserve brands goodwill, Upwork should absorb the cost (which they have to this point), pursue legal action against the client, and not punish the freelancer.

I don't know the legality of withholding payments for future work due to the freelancer. I don't believe they have a right under the terms to do that, but I would not do any future work for free. That could be a breach of contract on Upwork's part, although haven't read through these terms enough to know that.