Any way to turn off updates on the Mac?

[Shooshie]

I get extremely tired of notifications to upgrade. You can click "Later" but it wants to know just "when later?" Skipping it is not an option. The banners will reappear until you finally do it. The pressure is invasive of our privacy, and in a weak moment I'm liable to go ahead and upgrade a bunch of things just to get the banners to stop. I've culled some of the worst offenders, usually on apps that I never even use.

To cull them, I go to Notifications in the System Preferences and set my preferences on each one. After all, why make it all or nothing? I've set many of them so that I never see them, but the main offender isn't there: OS X. You cannot tell it to shut up about upgrades to OS X. Or can you? Does anyone know a way?

I think I ended up in El Capitan in one weak moment, and I guess it hasn't cost me anything major, though for a while I was disappointed in some things. (Now i don't even remember; how quickly we forget the blissful days of things working as they were supposed to, if they ever existed.) Anyway, the bottom line is that I'd like to be the one who decides when I upgrade my OS, and not Apple or some automated bot. Surely there is a way to turn that off. Anyone know?

Shooshie

[cuttime]

System Preferences> App Store>Un-check "Automatically Check for Updates."

[Shooshie]

System Preferences> App Store>Un-check "Automatically Check for Updates."

Yeah, but that's another all-or-nothing method. I guess it's the only way. I can do that.