What's your most important/valuable file you own and use regularly?

It was my Bitcoin wallet before I sold. Now it's probably my password vault.

Password database. I don't know any of my passwords.

Edit: Except one of course.

But I'll never tell 😉

For work or for personal?

For work, it's my bespoke spreadsheet that automatically calculates when and how much I need to have on hand for any particular item. Our system is technically able to do this, but no one has ever turned it on, so I created one myself in order to get my inventory under control.

At home, it's probably the blender file of my current project for X-Plane that represents roughly a year and a half of my life so far. I have backups in multiple places of course.

What does blender do, something something graphic design?
- Open Source 3D modelling software

I have a triangular file I use for sharpening all my saws, super useful. I have some old saws.

passwords.kdbx

id_rsa

I do something similar except I have my own cryptic way of writing my passwords that only I understand. I will never trust an outside source with my passwords ever. EVERYTHING gets hacked at some point...
- Well if they can hack into my computer escape the hypervisor and then brute force the decryption key they deserve my passwords. I use qubes btw.
something something RSA keys aren’t as secure as the more modern cyphers
- Somthing somthing what should i be using for ssh

Probably my KeePass database since it holds the keys to everything else.

/dev/sda1

Currently my thesis

give it a year, it'll be the least important thing
Back her up
- And backup the backups

Probably the file describing the firmware of my current keyboard layout.

/usr/bin/ssh

The Excelsheet that tells me how long I have to work on Friday to get my 40 hours in.

/boot/vmlinuz-linux

/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/nkhyqhk8.default

Does vmlinuz count?

Probably my tmux config. Using tmux has saved my butt so many times.

Going back to default tmux feels so wrong. I've got a bastard config that comes from muscle memory from starting with GNU screen with a dash of i3 sensibilities

.git/objects/pack/pack-1c6f43d5481532f5aea93cff2884e100a36dc8f3.pack

Not a single file, but a folder with mementos associated with someone who has been a really good friend to me for the past two years. Said friend also has a folder for saving the stuff I send them, so it's mutual!

I keep my passwords and other sensitive information in a written diary, you never know if you might get hacked, so I took that precaution.

Photos Library.photoslibrary

I’d be crushed if I lost any/all of my photos.

Indirectly, but the .bash_aliases file that has all my terminal shortcuts

Why not use fish though?

Sad blub
I don't have this problem because I use Windows snorts

Pictures of my dogs who passed away a couple years ago.

vmlinuz

passwords.kdbx

cinnamon-desktop

.profile

firefox

/bin/zsh

Nearest thing I can think of is a running file with medical guidelines I use occasionally but not often enough to want to learn, childhood vaccination schedules, colonoscopy follow up timelines, lots of imaging follow up guidelines.

Childhood vaccination schedules seem like they should be simple to memorize but I don't know that I've ever met someone that knew them by heart
- I know some nurses that know them pretty good, it's not that outrageous to know the schedule by heart if you use it most days. I don't use it most months though.

Not including work devices - probably my old university files. I intentionally wrote about topics relevant to the career I wanted (which I now have) and they're genuinely useful for going back and referring to.

The one containing all my ID information and passwords and stuff. I have at least six replicas of it, tactically hidden in places where I'd find it but nobody else can, similar to the five rings from Captain Planet.

There's no hiding from grep -r
I used to hide my passwords in the text content of like a png file. Invisible unless you know to open in a text editor

Now I actually encrypt that stuff haha
Come on, the six infinity stones where right there
- Yeah, but the infinity stones are at least useful individually. You need the five Captain Planet rings for anything resembling their main purpose to be possible.

Op's password.

It’s hunter2, isn’t it?
- I thought it was the same as his luggage, 12345?
Dammit, I knew 69 was gonna get me in trouble one-uh-these-days

Nice try, hacker. I ain't giving you my secrets!

KeePass password vault

Spreadsheet template for paying bills.

My collection of .EXE files out of which the most important is the one i use daily.

mullvad.exe

My daily work notes.

My most important file is an insanely customized, self-compiled binary on Gentoo, embedded with multiple layers of encrypted payloads—using a hybrid of AES-256 and RSA, stored in a hidden LUKS partition on a remote server. The entire setup is wrapped in a fortress of security-hardened CFLAGS, with each layer only accessible via a complex, time-sensitive keystroke sequence using a YubiKey. The system is so finely tuned that it only runs on a specific kernel version optimized for speed and stealth, pivoting through an ever-shifting network of proxy chains. If anyone tries to tamper with it, the dead man's switch wipes everything in an instant. Good luck finding it OP.

If you used Lemmy on your phone, then your IP is already exposed.