1. The problems with installing from extras-devel and extras-testing are routinely hysterically overstated.

2. The problem with optification is much less than it was a few months ago.

3. "Bricking" originally meant turning your phone into a brick. That did not mean going into a reboot loop. It meant, time to send the device back to Nokia. So 95% of the talk you hear about a phone being "bricked" is just untrue -- it can be flashed and fixed and is not truly bricked.

4. Flashing is a good thing. The only BAD thing about flashing is that currently you have to do two types of flashing to get a clean phone, for most people. So you have a large number of newbies who have a hard time getting their heads around one type of flashing and they are supposed to understand two types. On top of that, there are complications with flashing with Windows 7, which should not have been a surprise to Nokia.

Those are my dangerous thoughts for the time.