It is a Subaru. I know it has a radio in it but I don’t pay for the service. I actually don’t know if it’s using its own radio or the connection on my phone. I’ve had the car for most of the year and this is the first update I’ve seen. It took about 10-12 minutes. As I have no patience, sitting in my driveway waiting for it to finish drove me nuts, but for the most part it was painless. It’s definitely something I don’t want to have to get used to.
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Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year agoThis looks like a Subaru. That being said, from what I’ve parsed, their privacy policy looks better than most. My 2021 hasn’t had any obnoxious OTA updates. The worst it does is push easily dismissed service notifications. No secret codes on how to reset a light.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
sarmale@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Do you need to buy a service for the radio?
watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Sorry. I mean cellular radio.
sarmale@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Oh, now makes sense
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We’ve had the ascent since 2019 and I have never seen it update. I figured it was doing it in the background swapping boot banks or something.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
How does this update even happen? Are owners connecting their car to internet?
Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
The car has some form of AT&T GSM connectivity. I recently discovered a WiFi hot spot setting and it’s a paid service provided by AT&T. I am able to schedule service appointments via the car, and it has an SOS button and an “Info” button that primarily is for roadside assistance. I’d prefer to be able to disable it. I was gonna say I thought Subaru was a bit better. Buttttt it looks like I’m wrong.
Check your brand here.
scottywh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d like to know this as well…
If not, are they using some always on GSM data connection or something?
Doesn’t sound like something I’d want unless there’s somehow an actual significant Value Add proposition that I’m just not seeing.
pokemaster787@ani.social 1 year ago
Yeah, pretty much all new cars have some amount of cellular connectivity. Usually you can’t actually use it without paying some subscription, but the manufacturers use it to push updates.
scottywh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like some shit I’d want to remove or disable as soon as the car is paid for.
llama@midwest.social 1 year ago
Which is interesting to say the least given that most cars from the past few years use LTE radios which will eventually work about as well as cars from the early 2000s with OnStar.