This is in 2 days time, so I'm wondering if I need to worry about keeping my phone working? Especially given a scenario where I need to re-flash it at some point in the near future.

I'm fine losing basic contacts data that are synced (well it's mildly irritating but I'll live), but should I worry about the basic ability to do anything once it's freshly flashed and booted up 1st time if I do this in a few months? Will the store work so I can re-download the basic games I like?

Sorry if this is a bit of a repeat question but I've spent the last 30mins searching the forums for this thread, most threads have people just carrying on as normal.

I have a worrying feeling now that MS only care about winmo/lumia that without direct action by me by a deadline, I may reach a point where I can't flash/boot/install anything because I didn't prepare my n950 for community .deb repos or dual boot with the ability to dd off partition images as backup etc.

Any advice?

- Damion

PS I used to frequent these forums a couple of years back and worked on qemu-i386&wine on n900&n950 so had a better idea of what is going on, but got utterly bogged down with work. So I'm feeling quite lost at the moment.