Depends where. In the US, in the corporate world maybe. (I am in an European country, working in academia).
Here around LinkedIn is considered barely useful. Nobody would find weird if you don't have an account on that platform.
Countless local CV-hosting platforms seem to be more popular for job hunting.
As are also online portfolio on small webpages (github.io seem to be popular in my field of work).
Bluesky and even Mastodon seem more popular network in general in my milieu.

That seems to be very specific to some countries. I guess that the Zuck has managed to successfully becom "the web" in the US and some countries.
But very few businesses here around bother with facebook. Having a cheap static webpage (like some local hosting companies will host for free when you buy a domain through them) seem to be the most popular option.
Followed by listing on various business rating platforms.
If social network are involved, currently I am under the impression that a different Zuck's platform is more frequently used: instagram (mostly for showing pictures of the goods, specially for restaurants).

I've rarely heard classic social networks being used for sharing pictures with family and friends. The trust is extremely low in any of FB / intragram, etc.
For sharing for closed friends, chat groups seem way more popular, specially on platforms that (at least pretend to) implement end-2-end encryption.
WhatsApp used to a be a popular option and can still be find among older generations.
Signal is gaining traction specially among the younger (e.g.: all our PhD students use that for communication. WhatsApp is seen as an old people's chat network {insert here "in South Korea, only old people use" meme}).

Oh common, keep up with the trends:
"Not everybody will self-host a PixelFed instance."

I don't even own a TV!

*wanking motion*

I think the traditional movie industry is dying and it really deserves to.

The idea of limiting releases to cinema, big box office, opening weekends making millions, then releasing to video, so on and so forth is over. People aren't going to cinemas as much any more as we know we can just wait or get it via other means (Yarrr!). Some of the best movies I've watched recently has been TV or close to TV. Game of Thrones, the Boys, the Expanse, Andor, the Mandalorian (at least the first 2 seasons, haven't seen the last one), Fallout. These are getting budgets bigger than movies these days. Often working with material that isn't old, tired and cliche ridden that's had all creativity wrung out of it by 113 identical committees to ensure that fragile white males are not going to be upset by anything.

As a side note, Lower Decks and the Orville are great examples of what Star Trek should be.

Marvel moves were good, they were never merchant ivory or pushed the boundaries, in fact they've a history of being quite safe. However they had good production values and were pretty entertaining despite cheaping out on most of the cast (I.E. older actors, TV actors who never made it into movies, taking risks on unknowns).

Now they've cut back on the production values to produce huge amounts of crap hoping they manage to make a few wins amongst masses of losses.

DC and Marvel are pretty much out of ideas, we need new ideas but studios are not likely to take a chance on a new idea even if it was successful in another format like novels (even those pretty much written to be turned into film).

DC has a far longer history with film than marvel. I liked Batman and Superman as a kid (80s and 90s) but found the remakes boring... The same thing is happening with Marvel and I'm not sure why anyone is surprised by it.

Likely much, much cheaper than licensing the content themselves and fulfils requirements for having X amount of French or French language content. Will still increase the subscription fees next year but probably not by that much.

Erm... anything that is "connected", meaning anything you control with an "app" or connect to Wifi. This stuff has become quite popular with manufacturers because they can also be outfitted with microphones and other recording devices as well as all the other mundane data they collect like how often you use the product, what kinds of settings you use, how long you use the product for, et al. Of course people have logged in with the app on their phones so there's all that lovely data to scrape off there as well making it all very valuable to advertisers, scammers (but I repeat myself), foreign governments and other neer-do-wells.

Here's a Phillips model with Wifi, at £70 from Amanoz it's not even expensive.

And people are definitely not thinking "why the mother loving Eff does my air fryer need to be connected to the internet" or even "why in the name of Boris' blue balls should I"... They're thinking "Oh Em Gee, my air fryer has an app... I can look at the settings from the couch. Connect ALL the things". People are morons, they'll complain that "mah phone is listening to me" when they finally figure out that the advertising is targeted at them specifically whilst ignoring the reality that it's all the other shit and they've enabled and they agreed to it.

So the UK govt is trying to get ahead of the moronic masses eventually figuring out that they sold their own privacy down the river for a little convenience and put laws in place to make raping our privacy just a bit less profitable.

Or the fact that the reinsurer mentioned is Swiss Re, meaning Switzerland... a cold country that is built to handle the cold but not increasing heat.

It's going to be 30 C here in the UK today, the climate change deniers aren't quiet, but they've forgotten to call climate change nonsense as they're too busy moaning about the heat.

But you're dead right that they're very, very much concerned about the Francs rather than the lives. They're a reinsurance company (reinsurance = insurance for insurance companies) so future costs are very much their concern but maybe more companies will take notice once it starts hitting their P&L statements with higher costs.

Erm... they've already crammed Windows with as much Xbox slop as they can. First it was Games for Windows Live and then when PC gamers didn't care they tried shoving in Xbox Live and Xbox Game bar. Again, PC gamers didn't care.

I'll give you three guesses about what'll happen here.

More like SteamOS... gamers switching to Linux.

MS has the corporate arena locked up tight and I'm certain those European government departments will be getting very thorough audits for server and SQL licensing in the near future... However gamers are the thin edge of the wedge because they are the ones who drive innovation in hardware as they spend more on it and are willing to be early adopters. If supporting Linux/SteamOS becomes a priority for desktop hardware and laptop manufacturers then it will really hurt MS. If gamers start using Linux, it's only a matter of time until non-gamers start using it (I.E. shared computer, new laptop comes with it) and only a matter of time after that before people learn how to use Linux and that's when companies start to question their large MS licensing bills (especially as MS loves an audit).

And couldn't happen to a nicer company. For years they ignored the PC whilst trying to push their PC wannabe... Now both PC wannabes are crawling back to PC gamers with their "exclusives" and we're barely caring.

Erm... this is not just phones. Every bank card now has NFC and will give out your card number, name and expiry date to anything that asks for it. Of course this has never been limited to 0.2 cm like a point of sale terminal and criminals know it.

Because your card is a transceiver, it's transmitting power is based on the power of the signal it receives so if a malicious actor wanted to extend the range beyond 0.2 cm range all they needed was a higher powered signal and antenna.

The whole "it only works on contact" has always been a security myth. Your card will hapily give out all the info (which includes your name, card number and expiry date, so everything they need to make online transactions) in encryption so weak it may as well be clear text. There's a reason I disable it on all my cards as soon as I get them (using a stanley knife to cut the antenna, chip still works fine). I'd order my card without such a function if I were able. NFC in cards has been a boon for criminals, one they hope will never end.

"Oil companies didn't create the emissions, people did. We're the one setting their product on fire."

Speaking of weapons level stupid ...

I'd never buy a home appliance that can't be fully operated with an app. That app will eventually go away, or not get updated and stop working on my device.

Doesn't your phone need to be unlocked to make a payment? Mine requires biometric authentication.

Recently an update introduced an option to not unlock for public transit. I haven't looked into it, presumably there is some security mechanism in there, but I didn't enable it anyway.

Not just their products, but their misinformation campaigns and them sitting on data showing that fossil fuels were causing climate change, and that pollution was causing harm.

Such lawsuits have been successful in Europe.