I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.
They exist. They are capable of being smart and curious, but they’re less inherently familiar with the “bleep bloops” as we are.