Yep, people here seem to be totally misunderstanding and overestimating how much the average person knows about tech.

I work in a role where I have to help clients sometimes access their reports via a portal. The clients ages range from 20s to their 80s, some very successful, some less, all intelligent at least. The amount of times I have had to explain what a browser is…or how to type in a URL ("but I just type the address in the Google thing!', searching for a fucking URL), and the absolute fucking basics.

My daughter is 12 and has just moved into secondary school. She’s commented that a lot of her class in IT cannot use a computer. They do not know how to use a filesystem, how to use a mouse or even a keyboard as they’ve grown up with iPads/phones and being able to bash in what they want into the first screen they see.

I have no issues with the judge. He asked for clarification, got it, and moved on. That’s not being inept, that’s being a normal person. Now if he keeps doing it past this point, and it starts affecting the case because he’s incapable of understanding, then yeah that might be different.