The T82 extremes are what we use at work... We have 10 of them and, despite being used by generally incompetent users, seem to survive day to day abuse in a high school. We have had them for nearly two years and have no casualties yet. Other schools in the area also use them - with no reported issues.
I know a couple of multi-band, so not specifically pmr, Baofeng users but can't comment on their ruggedness or longevity other than to say I haven't heard bad things.
Another popular brand to look at might be Hytera; possibly a bit out of budget for you. We did look at those, instead of cheaper handsets, but price won in the end.
I am a Motorola fan. Used to use their VHF kit back in the day and it took a lot of abuse.
At work we have their averagely rugged yellow things T82 iirc that work out about €35 each
At home, for the goblins, we have a pair of yellow Motos T72 iirc similarly rugged €60 the pair.
Both models have good range and are easy to set up. Work ones do group programming so you program 1 bung the rest on programming mode and transmit the config. Boom. 10 radios programmed identically in less time than manually doing 2.
They are just about as bullet proof as the cars are self driving. Dunno why anyone might think that they would actually be bullet proof, given Musk's track record...
My wife is an introvert. It took 7 years of very innocent twice a year meeting at camp and someone else shoving us together for us to think about becoming an item. Been married for 8 years now (together for 13). Sometimes these things just happen. Top tip is not to try too hard.
Seems, from the same place, that the EBU have voted to add some weasel words to the rules and also allow Israel to take part. Spain Ireland Netherlands won't be there with options for Iceland and Slovenia also not to attend.
Germany said they wouldn't attend if Israel were barred. Kind of strange that, n'est pas?
The translators did a heroic job. They even changed the names to make them funnier (Getafix is Panoramix in French). I do wonder what the Corsican's name is in French given that boneywasawarroirwayayix is very English (language and culture) specific.
As a humble brag my Pa knew Anthea Bell's brother - she was doing the English translations.
That is odd. However iirc it is an option in the bios.
Fwiw telling grub to uefi boot will not work if the boot device doesn't have uefi support (and trying to boot in bios mode from a uefi disk fails as well... Been there got the T-shirt)
To get the install media to boot you could try removing the laptop storage...
It's not like Guinness though... Much, much nicer ( admittedly nicer than Guinness is a bit of a low bar, but let's take wins where we can after the 6 nations this year!)
Cardiff at 11pm can be interesting, exciting or fear inducing... Rather depends which bit and where you are going. I would say it's probably safe to walk 1 km however that really depends on you.
Walking around the centre is the only way to go... There may be bike hire places around but you shouldn't need to do that.
The weather - if it isn't raining it will be now in a minute. Actually yeh follow the weather forecast.
Local cuisine? Lol. Nope. Can't recommend anywhere. Depends what you call local.
Plenty of history around. The national museum is excellent.
Yeh nearly everyone speaks English in Cardiff. Even 1st language Welsh people (rare in Cardiff) will be fluent English speakers (except in north Wales where they might not be, or at least pretend not to be)
General tips - it can rain quite hard for quite long periods of time so be prepared to get wet, however it can also be dry and warm if not hot. Don't drink too much Brain's Dark, you will get a headache.
The T82 extremes are what we use at work... We have 10 of them and, despite being used by generally incompetent users, seem to survive day to day abuse in a high school. We have had them for nearly two years and have no casualties yet. Other schools in the area also use them - with no reported issues.
I know a couple of multi-band, so not specifically pmr, Baofeng users but can't comment on their ruggedness or longevity other than to say I haven't heard bad things.
Another popular brand to look at might be Hytera; possibly a bit out of budget for you. We did look at those, instead of cheaper handsets, but price won in the end.