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First impressions with OCI

I am surprised and utterly disappointed with how OCI cannot handle super basic stuff. Here is what I did:

  1. Create a free tier instance
  2. ssh to the instance
  3. try installing openjdk, or just yum update
sudo yum install java-11-openjdk -y
  1. that hangs
  2. can't ssh to the same instance anymore

This, while there has been no changes in security rules! And I was able to login just 5 minutes ago.

Here is a screen recording of this behavior: screen record

No wonder nobody uses this!

Also, dear OCI, who signed off on this UI color combination and aesthetics?

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