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[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] hellweaver666@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the movie industry is anything to be believed my Plex Library is probably worth tens of millions.

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[–] Platform27@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sentimentality, images of long dead family members.

Monetarily, my Steam account.

[–] SomeTeaMonster@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I, too, have more Steam games than dollar bills.

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[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think you own your steam games.

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] Moghul@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you still have that phone, try a data recovery specialist. They might be able to get something out.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I paid over $500(in early 2000s) and was not able to retrieve it. Maybe 20 years later there is a chance.

[–] Moghul@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

That's unfortunate, I'm sorry to hear that...

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[–] cabbagee@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 year ago

Nice try, hackers.

[–] thrawn21@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get them up on archive.org?

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] RampageDon@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 PokΓ©mon carts have a dead battery by now.

[–] JTStrikesBack@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I'm amazed that my original PokΓ©mon 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 PokΓ©mon Stadium which gives me a good chuckle anyone I put that in.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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.

[–] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The true power move is to send it before the hackers do. Beat them to the punch.

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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should consider putting pants on, then

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[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The uncensored anarchist cookbook

[–] jcit878@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

damn thats a blast from the past

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[–] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Zippythezigzag@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] malchior@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The contents of my LastPass keychain.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] NullaFacies@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't you like to know...

For real though, my password vault.

[–] DagingAnalog@lemmy.my.id 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] gianni@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

My TOTP codes

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

[–] lorez@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

My porn collection.

[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

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

Source code, schematics, board designs and dessert recipes.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Pass vault and nudes of my ex's

[–] Clipper152@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Backups of my old computers.

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