The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.

[…] However, Musk has posted pictures or referred to his laptop on X several times in recent months, and public evidence suggests that he owns and appears to use at least one computer. […]


Archived: https://archive.is/5Bg9m

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      7 days ago

      Hold on now! He posted those clean drug tests from his computer the other day. Clearly he would not lie about his drug tests!

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    You can’t tweet without a computer. It may be a mobile one, but even that is a computer. This is a stupid claim which could only fool an idiot.

    So depending on the judge, we’ll just see what happens…

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      Most people draw a distinction between a phone/tablet vs a desktop/laptop. It’s not a distinction that can be easily defined, but most people instinctively categorize them as such.

      But regardless, the issue at hand has nothing to do with that definition. The discovery process requires them to process any applicable devices that might have info, potentially including all of the above (and more). His team said they already did his phone, but that the laptop in question is not used by him. His opponents say that he has not complied with the requirements of discovery.

      The judge will rule on whether that laptop is included in the discovery order.

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      A particularly fancy drainage pipe is a computer. I think its reasonable to make the distinction that a phone /= computer for the sake of normal definitions.

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        At which point does it become a computer? Raspberry is smaller than a phone. Steam deck feels like a phone, but runs linux. My old PDA that looks like a smartphone is definitely by definition a pocket computer. If I can make calls with my PC, is it by definition my phone?

        How many batteries do you need to push into a power bank for it to be defined as a power station? I’ll shut up now.

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    All ridiculouness aside like him showing videos of him playing games, I was gonna be like, how do you suppose he sends emails or writes his posts on X?

    But they counted his phone as something separate to a computer.

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    So, Elon, you said that you totally legit play PoE 2, but you also said you didn’t use computers. So which is it?

    Which is it, Elon?

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    Didnt he have a big thing about getting bigger monitors in the white house so he could game?

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      You mean the amount of bribery makes them have “no active memory” of Elon using a computer

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      This just struck me, this is the key. They can argue that a phone is traditionally thought of as a phone. Even though technically it’s a computer, in common parlance it is called a phone. Then by extension, he wasn’t streaming on a computer, he was streaming on a laptop. So they will argue a computer is desktop.

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        They’ll argue that a computer is a woman who performs calculations and since slavery is illegal he doesn’t own one.