Fixes to compile with most recent rust stable, as well as added features

[AdamBrouwersHarries]

Note: this PR contains a variety of different bits of work over the course of several months. Apologies.

Fixes:

• removed std crate reference
• removed raw_pointer_derive lint
• remove StaticMutex use, as it is deprecated
• remove slice::bytes module use, as it is deprecated

Features:

• added local memory allocation
• added more device information queries

[OpakAlex]

@AdamHarries any progress?