What is the most valuable digital data you own?

My password manager vault

If the movie industry is anything to be believed my Plex Library is probably worth tens of millions.
- Millennials complain aboot hoosing prices yet they own a morbillion dollars in movies. Smh my head.

Sentimentality, images of long dead family members.

Monetarily, my Steam account.

I, too, have more Steam games than dollar bills.
- I also own more Bitcoin than dollar bills, considering I'm European.
I don’t think you own your steam games.
- Not really, no. Though there are DRM-free games on Steam, so I can always recommend checking up on those and copying them to a backup drive, because why not

Super sad storytime. Back in the early 2000s, I had an awesome Sony camera phone with a real xenon flash.

I probably had thousands of photos on it on an SD card that has been through multiple phones.

Suddenly, my mom started feeling pains in her stomach area and was later diagnosed with staged 4 cancer.

After she passed away, I accidentally fell into a lake and broke my phone and lost every photo and video of my mom. I only have a video of her voice that I posted on Facebook while she was washing my dog for the first time.

Since then, I haven't lost a single photo. Each photo and video is saved in 4 different locations, in a B2 bucket and in different countries.

I still have this old phone. I'm hoping one day I can retrieve it. Until then, always save your photos in multiple places.

If you still have that phone, try a data recovery specialist. They might be able to get something out.
- I paid over $500(in early 2000s) and was not able to retrieve it. Maybe 20 years later there is a chance.
- Yes but it's gonna cost you a lot of money
I'm sorry for your loss.

Computer stores might be able to retrieve the data. It's better if you go somewhere locally owned, they might have a suggestion for a specialist.
- I have tried. Mailed it to a specialist in Taiwan that claimed it was possible. Couldn't get the data out.
wait hold on youre hsing the same phone? thats really bad, whenever data loss occurs the firsr thjng yiu should do is stop using the pjone entirely and send it in to a data recovery specialist
- They said the phone is broken. They still HAVE it.
- You write as if you've had a bit too much to drink

Nice try, hackers.

Hah, the number on my bank account sometimes feels like it's just pixels.

But most valuable to me would be old irc chatlogs with people who've passed. It's been years since I've felt the need to pull them out and read them, but I'm happy to know they're there.

A bunch of irreplaceable demo tracks and singles from bands that broke up twenty years ago.

Get them up on archive.org?
- There's an idea. I already have cloud backups, and physical backups, but public backups really appeal to me, as does sharing these tracks with the world.
  
  Legally, though, I don't own the music; I just have it, own a license for it, I mean. With bands that don't exist anymore, I don't anticipate any issues; for singer-songwriter types, though... that's thornier.

The data I have that I find the most valuable, apparently isn't owned by me. It's owned by Google, Microsoft, etc... Shouldn't I be making money off my browsing habits? They are my browsing habits, after all.

You're not making money, but you're recieving a whole lot of free services.
- I'd pay them for location history and Earth if they asked for it

My orginal pokemon blue save file and the 151 (152 if you count missing no) from my childhood. They are all just chilling and hoping that maybe one day I'll come back and play with them like the good old days when we were masters.

Get a ROM dumper and get that save off the cartridge now before it’s too late, if it isn’t already. I collect and restore old games and most gen 1 Pokémon carts have a dead battery by now.
I'm amazed that my original Pokémon Red lasted as long as it did - but the in game battery will eventually die. If you really want to save it I highly recommend using a cart dumper, something like the gbxcart, to save your file elsewhere.

I had lost my original Red had died but my first big team is saved onto Pokémon Stadium which gives me a good chuckle anyone I put that in.

Well I do have around 200 pictures of my butthole, and if I was held for ransom where those pictures were emailed to either of my grandfathers then I would pay a tidy sum to prevent it. Grandma, mom, dad, step-niece, I don't care. But if my grandfather might see my butthole, I would happily pay $40m to keep him from seeing my bare back butthole and balls. I don't want you all to get the wrong idea, I love Gramps, but he has seen enough of my butthole, and I want to stay in his will.

I have, in fact, gained access to your sphincter vault. I will be emailing these pictures to both of your grandfather's (and 2 excoworkers). Please send me 40 million dollars to scammy(dot)scam scam(at)notascam(dot)com.

Thank you.
The true power move is to send it before the hackers do. Beat them to the punch.
- Hamilton moment.
You should consider putting pants on, then
- But I don't have pants on to put
Only 200? Step up your game. Gramps didn't sub $5.99 / month OF out of his retirement funds for nothing.
Lemmy moment
Why do you hold on to them?
- My best guess is hemorrhoid followup - what would you do, ask your neighbor to look and comment on your butt?
- I wanted to do one of those old school photo montages where I took a picture everyday. It becomes a real chore trying to find time to expose your dump truck. Call it sunken cost fallacy, but my butthole has done a lot for me over the years.

The uncensored anarchist cookbook

damn thats a blast from the past
TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook is just the superior book anyway
- Don't have that one. Any link to where I can grab it?
( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

Photos of my family.

This ^

My music collection, about 12TB of high bit rate music.

Can i borrow it?
- You wouldn't download a car, would you!?
Jesus, how many songs is that? And who made them?
- The majority are 100MB+ high res files, so it’s only 90,000 songs. Mixture of all genres.

Photos of family; family records.

And a OneNote notebook I have (backuped to OneDrive by default, but also gets backuped to Google Drive daily) in which I try to organize a family tree, with resources, old papers and records, etc.

The contents of my LastPass keychain.

You should know LastPass had many security incidents in last years and they seem not to learn from their mistakes.
Permanently Deleted

Wouldn't you like to know...

For real though, my password vault.

Family photos and videos.

I also choose this users family photos and videos

My porn collection.

My TOTP codes

My Dreamcast memory card with my PSO character on it from when I was in uni in 2000.

Source code, schematics, board designs and dessert recipes.

My PayPal account. Though I believe my undergrad thesis project may be another option from another perspective.

Backups of my old computers.

The most valuable digital data I own isn't a single thing but rather the unity of everything, because my magnum opus is I have the world record for the most websites having signed up for. Think of any website in the world and I'm probably there, almost always with one account. And you may recognize me on there if there's a chance you see me talk about this on there too.

How do you know you hold the world record?
- The wiki page says so, as long as it's still there.

Pass vault and nudes of my ex's

Copies of Led Zeppelin II as original separate tracks.

My thoughts

i honestly don't know

My book collection. I have digital files from every book that I want or have read. If I lost it I don't know what I would do, all my memories are there

Photos, legal docs, passwords and contacts book (in a lesser extent I guess, it should be fairly easy to rebuild for my family)