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You're in agreement, they are additionally implying that the bar is much lower than you set it though.

I think they're trying to say that "people don't understand CPUs" is almost over-optimistic given how many much simpler things they don't understand.

Would perhaps have been better phrased as "Absolutely true, but it's even worse than that" ass-u-ming I parsed it right.

People in general have a barely functional understanding of computing devices, let alone their operating systems or hardware components, at an usage level.

Their fabrication process is so far removed that I don't think most people would even be able to know where to look for the information, even if they could access and understand all of it.

Yes I'm agreeing with you, I think the situation is much worse than that though.

Ah I see now. Thanks to everyone else who chimed in.