FWIW, I ran a Pi 2 with external (self-powered) USB drive for about 8 years as my main backup without issue (except that it was slow). I've just replaced it with a Pi 5 and TerraPi frame holding an SSD.
You could just about play speech using one bit output using pulse-width-modulation. But it was almost unrecognizable. And would take a lot of memory for the time.
It was usual to have different numbers of beeps for POST errors.
But this was an age when a PC would say "Keyboard error. Press any key to continue", so things were not thought out that well.
Given how the "shop and walk out" process worked, they'll probably outsource it to people paid to throw packages on parachutes over your fence while they make a buzzing noise.
When the metric system was introduced in the UK, the schools taught decimeters, decameters and hectometers, not knowing that no one would ever bother with those.
And yet you still can't share numbers, names and addresses via Contacts.
Calendar supports sharing really well, with the option to show other people's calendars without merging them. And docs, of course. But not something as simple as an address list.
It explains that it means "fan failure".
And there was a link to a video of it happening.
The only other link to an MS support page did not work.