ci: fall back to GitHub-hosted runners outside pingdotgg

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What Changed

Every job in ci.yml, mobile-fingerprint-check.yml, and windows-tests.yml now picks its runner based on the repository owner:

runs-on: ${{ case(github.repository_owner == 'pingdotgg', 'blacksmith-8vcpu-ubuntu-2404', 'ubuntu-24.04') }}

Under pingdotgg the label is byte-for-byte what it was, so nothing about upstream CI changes: same runner sizes, same steps, same cost. Anywhere else it resolves to the equivalent GitHub-hosted runner (ubuntu-24.04, macos-26, windows-2025).

Nine runs-on lines plus a short comment above jobs: in ci.yml pointing the next job at the same pattern.

Why

Blacksmith runner labels only resolve for the org that owns the Blacksmith account. On a fork, every job in these three workflows queues forever against a label that will never have a runner, so a contributor gets no CI signal at all before opening a PR and cannot tell a real failure from an unschedulable one.

The alternative, a second fork-only workflow file, means two CI definitions that drift. This keeps one file as the single source of truth: forks inherit the same jobs, steps, and ordering, and only the runner label differs.

Scope is limited to the three workflows a fork actually runs without secrets. release, deploy-relay, web-preview, desktop-macos-preview, the EAS lanes, AUR, and the showcase workflows are secret- or label-gated and already skip on forks, so converting them would add diff with no fork benefit. pr-size.yml and pr-vouch.yml were already on ubuntu-24.04.

case() is a documented GitHub Actions expression function, and keeping the selection inline on runs-on means there is no extra gate job on the critical path and no second place for the runner mapping to live.

Verification

Pushed this branch to a fork and ran the full CI workflow there against a scratch base, so the non-pingdotgg path executed for real rather than being reasoned about. Every job scheduled and picked up a runner, confirming the expression resolves and all five fallback labels are valid:

Job	Fallback runner	Result
Check	ubuntu-24.04	pass
Test	ubuntu-24.04	pass
Test Server 1-3	ubuntu-24.04	pass
Rust	ubuntu-24.04	pass
Mobile Native Changes	ubuntu-24.04	pass
Mobile Native Static Analysis	macos-26	pass
Native fingerprint diff	ubuntu-24.04	pass
Release Smoke	ubuntu-24.04	fails, see below

Release Smoke fails with ERR_PNPM_UNUSED_PATCH: expo-audio@57.0.4, which is the pre-existing main breakage that #11426 fixes. It fails identically on main upstream on Blacksmith, so it is unrelated to runner selection and is left alone here.

Worth calling out that the two apt steps in Check and Test pass on GitHub-hosted runners. They touch /etc/apt/blacksmith-ubuntu-mirrors.txt, but that file is created by .github/actions/setup-apt-mirrors on whatever runner it runs on, so nothing there is Blacksmith-specific despite the name.

UI Changes

Not applicable.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes
• I included a video for animation/interaction changes

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• CI Improvements
  • Continuous integration now runs successfully for both the main repository and forks.
  • Forks use standard GitHub-hosted runners, while the main repository continues using optimized runners where available.
  • Mobile fingerprint checks and Windows tests now support the same runner fallback behavior.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 36affdd

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small CI-only portability change that preserves the existing jobs and uses GitHub-hosted runner fallbacks for forks. It does not alter product behavior, deployment logic, schemas, defaults, or static-analysis enforcement.

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Changes

Conditional CI runner selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow runner selection .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/mobile-fingerprint-check.yml, .github/workflows/windows-tests.yml	Jobs use Blacksmith runners when the repository owner is pingdotgg and GitHub-hosted runners otherwise. The main CI workflow documents this pattern.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 36aff

Fork pull-request CI can remain queued on unavailable Blacksmith runners. Runner selection should distinguish fork-origin pull requests before merge.

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main change: using GitHub-hosted runners when the repository is outside the pingdotgg organization.
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- Line 22: Update the runs-on expressions in the CI and mobile fingerprint check
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