apple tells me authoritatively that the next macos version WILL be installed tonight, I have no choice in the matter

then it goes to do it, and all the sudden it's like, "umm can i pwease have ur password to do the installation??? 🥺 "

@andrewrk I remember a Snow Leopard system I had once tried to update itself automatically and just got stuck, it stayed stuck like that forever all the way til I retired that system