No, your laptop also connects to the hotspot. If you have available wifi at your location, you can then setup the pi to use that wifi and disconnect the phone hotspot, and just use the local wifi on all devices.

Ive just found this to be the simplest setup. I briefly had serial over bluetooth set up, and it was an easier way to change the pi’s wifi, but it broke pretty quickly for me not sure why.

Probably the most elegant solution is ethernet over usb, but thats a bit of a pain to set up.

For me a hotspot has been the least headache

What i usually do is set up a wifi hotspot from my phone, and connect the pi that way

Edit: just looked at your link. I think for the time being im going to use tailscale. Its a restaraunt, and they dont have a self-hosted server. Im trying to get around opening ports, so using an existing service. Your link did make me aware of cloudflare tunnels whick looks like it allows 50 users on a free plan vs tailscale’s 3. Although the 3 might work for them, I’ll have to check. Ill probably drop in an ngrok tunnel too so i can maintenence the pi remotely. (They are in a different state) i was mostly looking for advice on how to connect a port on one machine to another over a lan, and socat looks perfect

Actually, i found socat which seems to work just fine so far, and appears to be a standard linux command.

socat TCP4-LISTEN:8096 TCP4:192.168.86.2:8096

Thats a test i did with jellyfin at home

Oh that makes sense because when i originally set it up, i did want all traffic routed through it. I guess i didnt realize it didnt have to be

Something ive noticed from using wireguard from my phone is my traffic across the board slows down significantly while connected because everything is routed back home.

With tailscale can the user be connected, and only have a specific ip/domain routed through it? I also dont have access to the dvr’s internal system to run tailscale from it.

Anyway thanks for the lead, im reading up now

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{“@context”: “https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams”, “type”: “Create”, “id”: “https://social.example/alyssa/posts/9282e9cc-14d0-42b3-a758-d6aeca6c876b”, “to”: [“https://social.example/alyssa/followers/”, “https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public”], “actor”: “https://social.example/alyssa/”, “object”: {“type”: “Note”, “id”: “https://social.example/alyssa/posts/d18c55d4-8a63-4181-9745-4e6cf7938fa1”, “attributedTo”: “https://social.example/alyssa/”, “to”: [“https://social.example/alyssa/followers/”, “https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public”], “content”: “Lending books to friends is nice. Getting them back is even nicer! :)”}}

Uh, wouldnt this make more sense for mastodon instances to defed? Can we even see mastodon posts on lemmy? I know they can post here, but its always like a lost in translation weird post.

Does threads even plan to federate at all? I haven’t looked that deeply into it. They may have just used AP because its open source so it was easy to spin up a twitter clone. I could very well be wrong about that.

The arguments about “hanging out with my friends” is valid, but also consider all the other organizations that probably will never consider using something like Mastodon. Will the bands I like, restaraunts in my area, politicians, etc join Mastodon? Maybe, but not all of them. Federation would allow me to follow my favorite bar and see what shows they have this week without me having to use threads myself.

When it comes to the damage Threads could do to the fediverse, I think thay has way more to do with how the fediverse reacts to changes that Threads may implement on their own. Considering the discussion all over fedi about Threads and whether or not to defederate, why the hell would the Activity Pub devs cater to potential breakages that Threads introduces? If Threads breaks compatibility with the Fediverse, then they will have effectively defederated themselves.

Ultimately it comes down to content. Threads may want to take our content and throw ads next to it, and that’s fine if they chose to do that. Some of us may want content that originates on Threads while using a foss client.

If we chose to completely defederate from Threads, I think that will ultimately push users from the fediverse to meta. I hate facebook, but that’s where my family is. I can’t even convince my wife to ditch reddit for lemmy. They will scrape our data whether or not we like it, and whether or not we defederate. I honestly just don’t see the point. As long as we don’t allow meta to have too much say in how Activity Pub is developed, I don’t really see the harm.