https://www.zimaboard.com/

recent blog from hacker news

I can’t personally attest to the “easy to use self hosting OS” since I immediately installed Ubuntu (soon to be Debian) but the hardware is good and the preinstalled OS should let you get a feel for things.

IIRC, the biggest issue with TrueNAS SCALE + Docker is that they really run the containers on a ‘hidden’ kubernetes cluster and obfuscate the standard docker and docker-compose way of doing things behind a gui with limited customization and poor field descriptions.
I found it much easier to spin up a VM on SCALE and run docker through that, although then you have to deal with multilayer networking.

… To be fair, this was when SCALE was still in beta, so it has possibly improved since then.

It’s not just every tech company, it’s every company. And it’s terrifying - it’s like giving people who don’t know how to ride a bike a 1000hp motorcycle! The industry does not have guardrails in place and the public consciousness “chatGPT can do it” without any thought to checking the output is horrifying.