a cool (brr) dude
Apart from gnupg I found this recently but haven’t used it: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
Sweatshops probably did exist at some point and maybe they still do in some places in China. At the cusp of liberalization/opening up the labour conditions were not good. Over the years as the country has prospered the labourers are doing better too. Example is the rise in wages over the years.
Chinese children making the stuff all Americans own
This is an exaggeration.
It’s pretty good. Most of the packages I use are up to date and if they are not I can help by contributing to the void-packages repository.
Downside is that it is difficult to find help for it. The only three official channels are IRC, github and reddit so they are heavily reliant on two garbage proprietary service.
I use it because I know how to use it because I have been using it for many years. Don’t have any special attachment to it.