This is how Apple gets its users to update to newer versions of its operating systems. I checked whether there were any updates and saw that Sequoia---which I still have installed because I am not interested in a whole new, worse UI---had an update. <img src="{att_link}select_to_update_macos_sequoia.webp" href="{att_link}select_to_update_macos_sequoia.webp" align="none" caption="Select to update MacOS Sequoia" scale="75%"> I select to see information about updating macOS Sequioa and got the following dialog, cheerfully ready to "upgrade". <img src="{att_link}apple_tries_to_trick_me_into_upgrading_to_tahoe.webp" href="{att_link}apple_tries_to_trick_me_into_upgrading_to_tahoe.webp" align="none" caption="Apple tries to trick me into upgrading to Tahoe" scale="75%"> Stick it in your ear, Apple. I'm not interested. When I reboot in a few minutes, I 100% expect to see it ask me to enable Apple Intelligence, which I've always been able to skip. I will continue to skip it for as long as I can but I realize that I am not in charge, not really. I continue to avoid the Tahoe upgrade and the Apple Intelligence integration only because Apple allows me to. For now.