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Elon Musk’s lawyers claim he ‘does not use a computer’ (www.wired.com)

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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. [...]

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

As opposed to those digital computers that we use and have everywhere.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

Those aren't computers! They're PCs! And that doesn't stand for anything.