Yes and yes.
Sending sats to themselves is basically what people do when they "rebalance" channels (and not loop/swap out/in sats from off- to on-chain, or Liquid).
Opening a channel to your 2nd node does only connect your 2 nodes, if none of them has any other channels, you're in the same position as before.
lassdas
npub1gm…094ea
2024-06-25 18:52:48
in reply to nevent1q…aktf
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2024-06-25 18:52:48Event JSON
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