I love kids, but I have never felt a want for them.

Same here, having watched how the lives of my friends who had kids changed reaffirmed the decision of not having any for me. You basically have to be prepared to dedicate next couple of decades of our life to raising kids and not doing much of anything else. And you end up giving up the freedom to do things like move to a different town or try a new career. Your primary goal in life becomes having stable income to raise your kids.

I'm in the same boat, except I've never felt any kind of remorse. How often do you feel it?

I had the opposite. In 2007 my mom convinced me it's conventional wisdom to buy as much house as you can afford, because historically it is one of the best investments you can make.

Thankfully all I could afford at that time was a pretty cheap house...

Cons: you don’t know what you’re missing

Pros: you don’t know what you’re not missing

I don't begrudge anyone not wanting kids. It's not for everyone.

That said, my first thought when I saw the post title was "I don't regret having kids".

I suppose the caveat is that my twins are only 2 and a half, I may well regret having kids when they start getting pregnant, selling drugs, marrying chat bots, that sort of thing.

Edit: I just scrolled through some of the other comments and noticed that the majority of them say that they don't regret not having kids. The fediverse is pretty homogenous I guess.

It is extremely concerning how many surgeons are happy to sterilize men on request, but push back HARD when women ask. I've talked to several women in this exact situation, it's like if you're under 30 and don't have 5 kids you must not have any idea what you want and you lose agency over your own body. One friend who wanted this had surgeons demanding a permission slip from her husband. What the fuck? Does her body belong to him? I find this situation abhorrent. Your body your choice end of story. And if you regret the consequences that's on you, not your doctor. And SHOULD NOT BE your doctor's job to dictate your life plans

Wish I could say the same, so far Linux knowledge seems to have done very little for me as far as employment goes. I have used it at work before but normally it isn't something anyone else seems to care about. At least my limited knowledge of Windows hasn't been too significant of a problem so far either.

I've been running some Linux servers for fun, at my last job we also had quite a few. The only admin quit, no documentation. Guess who got a big salary increase because he was the only one with the knowledge required to keep this shitshow running? Yep, that's me.

Thanks to past me for installing every distro under the sun and sinking years into the commandline, shell scripting, web and mail servers just for the thrill. Linux is awesome.

Ymmv depending on where you are. I was happily employed in the Unix space until I moved to Seattle.

What kind of tattoos?

I mean, the whole point is that you are going to regret it after you die so it might be a bit early to comment on that

Here's a guy who Cracks His Knuckles in Only One Hand for Over 60 Years. What you need to worry about is when they stop cracking, symptom of systemic inflammation.

Hey if you don't mind, roughly how old are you?

Yeeees

That one takes time to catch up with you.

Intermittent touching grass is essential. ;)

Same! My parents were so worried about how much time I spent at the computer. Now it's my day job (computer programmer).

Yes. I keep hearing how Microsoft or Apple or Google is about to do something I shouldn't miss. And they (the unmissable things) keep being kind of big nothings.

I regret not getting more by now. Long wait times for good artists put me off but by now, I could have gotten through many such waits.

i went to college and i regret it; but i suppose i regret it less than going to the army like i originally planned.

What do you do for a living?

I've accepted that my daughter probably won't be able to get her own place once she's done school. I'm OK with it, would rather she have that option than be potentially pressured into a toxic relationship to afford to live.

I wonder how your parents feel about that

How'd you get approved for that? I thought Australia was very locked down for immigration