Unless there is something you actually need to use in a later kernel version, then you don't actually want to upgrade it. The same is true for your graphics driver. The combination of both of these things, and their management via apt can break your system on upgrades, which is why I just started managing them both myself outside of apt a year ago, and never had debian break on me since then.
Updating components generally does not improve their most critical functionality that you actually want to use. Updates typically bring new features that have little to do with your unique hardware, and your basic needs.
A sort of parallel example to explain this bizarre issue to you, is the web browser firefox. It might seem important to constantly update firefox to the latest version! to get all the latest exclamation points you can find on the internet! But with version 133 of firefox they started incorporating an AI chatbot into firefox, and by default forcing AI to be enabled inside the browser, hidden from the user. A new feature that has nothing to do with using a web browser successfully, and securely was pushed on to everyone, and the same basic issues that most people are actually concerned about in regards to using a web browser, haven't been resolved in twenty years, and are never going to be.
Updating components generally does not improve their most critical functionality that you actually want to use. Updates typically bring new features that have little to do with your unique hardware, and your basic needs.
A sort of parallel example to explain this bizarre issue to you, is the web browser firefox. It might seem important to constantly update firefox to the latest version! to get all the latest exclamation points you can find on the internet! But with version 133 of firefox they started incorporating an AI chatbot into firefox, and by default forcing AI to be enabled inside the browser, hidden from the user. A new feature that has nothing to do with using a web browser successfully, and securely was pushed on to everyone, and the same basic issues that most people are actually concerned about in regards to using a web browser, haven't been resolved in twenty years, and are never going to be.
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