> I just wanna be able to systemctl --user start ./my-service.service or something to that effect.

Can you not? I know that systemctl has a userspace dot folder for user's services.

[0] `~/.config/systemd/user/`

The quadlet user folder is typically at `~/.config/containers/systemd`. So if you put your .container files in there, you can start them with `systemctl start --user MyContainer`

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...