so I actually tried it last night and it came out a bit too mushy for my liking, is that how it's supposed to be or do you do something to it to make it more like regular pancakes in consistency?
What would be the utility for someone, who cares about privacy and currently uses Signal and email for communication?
Matrix is more like discord, no phone numbers, just email, and you can make big groups with different channels within. More meant for communities then something like Signal, that's mostly for 1:1 conversation or small groups
What advantage would it give me over other services?
Keeping the discord example i said above, no tracking, possibility to have end to end encryption, and open source code, along with the ability of having different instances that can communicate to each other, just like here on lemmy, so if you don't trust anyone else you can run your own instance
Is Matrix anything good already, or is it something with potential that's still fully in development?
It's mostly good already, but as with many other privacy focused services it lacks a wide adoption, so most of the communities there are about privacy, Linux and that type of stuff.
How tech savvy does one need to be to use Matrix?
The most used client, Element, is IMO very easy to use, you can directly register through there, and you get the choice of choosing between the official matrix.org instance (which on certain occasions is laggy due to the many people using it), or other instances
I genuinely don't know what passes by their brain, but I got banned from commenting on a community on hexbear because I was saying that their little third party wouldn't win anyways and by voting it they were helping trump, and every response was just calling me a genocide apologist because of my support for the dems.
many people who work from home have flexible work hours (they can decide if to work in the evening or morning) and so they need to be reachable at any time, even it it might be off hour
I have next to no experience but from the few times I went on those planes I can say the G forces are much more then you expect. It's not just "oh cool I feel lighter", it's " oh god I'm falling to my inevitable death"
teachers are there to serve the paying parents, they don't give a fuck about students (see: bullying)