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I have moved on to LMDE for everything other than my laptop, but I don't feel like rebuilding the thing. I just blew out the dust and in a few minutes it will be back up and running in the basement.
You can update and change repos.
But I hope you use kernel livepatching, because that uptime is scary. You missed like 50 kernel updates
I am pretty sure the kernel is up to date, but I am not 100% sure since I haven't checked that the process didn't fail at some point. This is a tertiary backup system, super low priority, hosting movies, music, and VeraCrypt drives internally behind multiple layers of network security and isolated in the DMZ where I keep stuff I want isolated from my network, like SmartTVs, IOT crap, and gaming consoles. But since I am working on it now, I will double check.
EDIT: 6.9.3, which is a little behind, but I'm ok with that.
The LTS kernel is still version 6.6, till 12/2026, so you're up to date. I wouldn't worry.