Brennan Benson 8f7cbad07b feat(mobile): name the machine after pairing (#22104)
* feat(mobile): confirm host identity after pairing

* refactor(mobile): unify host descriptor state

* chore(i18n): translate the last-known host descriptor label

The remote-host row's "Last known" label shipped in English only. Every other locale now carries it, worded as each catalog already words "last known".

* fix(mobile): make the pairing naming step safe to abandon and show the machine live

Pairing:
- An unreadable status.get reply no longer strands the pairing race: the
  descriptor read ran inside the race's success handler and threw, so the
  candidate was never counted and a direct-only pairing sat on
  "Connecting..." until the timeout. The race now reads the status through
  a reader that returns null instead of throwing.
- A pending pairing is now a small state machine: a save in flight owns the
  outcome (Cancel, back, or unmount no longer clear the journal under it),
  a failed save stays pending and the naming screen shows the error with
  Save still available, and Cancel never rejects.
- When the desktop refuses relay provisioning, the journal is cleared before
  the naming step instead of at save, so an app kill on that screen no longer
  blocks every later scan with "recovery pending".
- A pairing that resolves after the screen went away is cancelled rather
  than left with its journal.
- The screens keep their root ref callbacks stable (the latest pending
  pairing is read from a ref) instead of re-creating them per pairing.
- The label field's placeholder shows the name that an empty label saves.
- "Is this an existing host" is derived from the id identity resolution
  hands back, so host-store and its tests go back to main's shape.

Machine descriptor:
- Mobile keeps the host-reported machine name and OS in memory only, filled
  by the status reads that already happen, and labels it "Last known" from the
  row's own connection state. This drops the per-host AsyncStorage copy, its
  web sibling and web-overrides entry, and the removal cleanup. It also fixes
  a latch: freshness used to stay true for the whole process once a host
  had answered.
- Desktop reads the descriptor through lastVerifiedRuntimeStatus and marks
  it "Last known" using the same reachability verdict as the row's dot.
- Drops the unused hostname/previousPlatform resolver inputs and moves the
  "OS · machine" formatting into the shared resolver.

Also restores main's page-only Reconnect gate in the host header (#22326),
undoes the no-op toStoredHostProfile reformat, and re-measures the web
session route at 4222 modules (one fewer: the dropped web persistence file).

* test(mobile): re-record RPC goldens for the deferred pairing save

Repins baseline to the pairing fix commit and re-records every golden.
Against main, 781 goldens move only in the header (baseline everywhere,
adapterSha256 for the pairing adapter family). Six pairing goldens move in
the body, and only in effect order: the pairing now resolves (closing its
candidate sockets) before the naming step saves the host, and a refused
relay provision clears its journal before the save rather than after. The
set of effects and every outcome match main.

This also removes the unhandled-rejection effects and the failed
result-absent/result-null cells that the previous recording captured from
the pairing race's throwing status read.

* fix(mobile): keep the machine name out of the host header title while the label loads

The host screen starts with an empty saved label and loads it asynchronously. With a descriptor
already in memory, the resolver fell back to the machine name as the title for that window, so
opening "Windows-Low Spec" briefly titled the header with the Mac's name. Read the descriptor
only once the label is known.

* test(mobile): build the pending-pairing status through its schema so the test typechecks

The mobile tests typecheck ratchet rejected a partial status literal: the reply type keeps every
optional field as a required key. Parsing the literal through the status schema yields that shape
without a type assertion.

* test(mobile-web): re-pin the session route closure after merging main

#22301 added two src/shared modules this route reaches; its own CI never ran this suite, so the
merged branch read 4224 against the 4222 pin. Measured on the merge.

* feat(mobile): name each host by what its desktop reports

Pairing saves the host immediately again and names it after the machine name the
desktop publishes; every connection refreshes that name and OS, so a rename on the
desktop reaches the phone. A name typed on the phone's Edit screen is kept as a
phone-local override that wins; clearing it returns to the desktop's name.

- Stored host profiles gain optional personalName, lastKnownMachineName and
  lastKnownHostPlatform; `name` stays the resolved value older builds read.
  Legacy records classify a generated "Host N" as desktop-named and any other
  name as a phone override.
- The connection layer runs one retrying status probe per connected host and
  records the descriptor; the capability probe becomes a projection of it.
- Rows and the header always show the OS, add the machine name under a phone
  override that hides it, and mark it "Last known" while the host is offline.
- Removes the deferred-save naming screen and the one-shot home status fetch.
- Name rules move to host-name-identity.ts and the host-list mutation queue to
  host-list-mutation-queue.ts; an unchanged mutation no longer rewrites storage.

* test(mobile): restore the RPC recordings to main's

Pairing saves the host back to back again and the recording adapter is main's, so
every recording matches main byte for byte; the earlier deferred-save re-record and
its baseline repin no longer apply.

* fix(mobile): keep stored host name identity across snapshot saves and on the web page

A connection re-saves its host profile snapshot on relay credential rotation or relay
re-resolution. The re-pair merge let that snapshot's name identity win, so a phone rename
cleared or changed since connect came back, and a newer desktop machine name rolled back.
The stored record now keeps the name identity on every save; the save supplies the rest.

The web page receives only the app's resolved host name, with no identity fields, so the
docked host header treated a phone rename as "no override" and titled the host with the
live machine name. The display hook now reads such a source the way storage reads a legacy
record: a non-generated name is the user's label.

* fix(mobile): hand the web page the host's stored name identity

The page received only the app's resolved host name, so it had to guess whether that
name was the phone's override or the desktop's name. It guessed "override" for any
non-generated name, which froze a desktop-adopted name as the title after the desktop
was renamed, and left an offline page header without the last-known OS and machine name.

The shell now puts the stored personalName and last-known descriptor on the init host as
optional fields. The page reads them exactly as the app does; a page handed its host by an
older shell still falls back to classifying the name, and an older page ignores the fields.

* fix(mobile): drop an unreadable host name field, not the whole host

The stored host record and the page's init host checked the platform against a closed list
and required non-empty names. A value this build does not know, such as a platform added in a
later build, failed the whole record: the host list dropped the paired host and the next write
persisted the list without it, and the page refused its init message. Those three optional
fields are now salvaged, so an unreadable value drops only that field.

Also states the one exception to the stored name rule (an OS reported without a machine name
keeps the adopted name), and brings four mobile test files in line with the branch: the edit
screen now saves `personalName`, and host opens now start a descriptor status probe.

* refactor(mobile): name the shared host name fields for their role

* fix(mobile): drop the "Last known" prefix from the host machine line

The OS and machine name line under a host's name reads the same whether or not the
host is connected; the connection status already says when it is offline, and a
prefix that users could read as applying to the name added nothing. Removes the
resolver's liveness input and the desktop row's translation key.
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