How useful is an original Raspberry Pi in 2025? (ft Blue Raspberry)

How well does a 13-year-old Raspberry Pi run modern Linux?

And why is that Raspberry Pi blue?

More resources:

- Blue Pi! https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/blue-pi/
- leepspvideo on Blue Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqyG5ssUvdk
- Brazilian Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-brazil/
- All Pi models from Raspi.TV: https://raspi.tv/rpifamily
- Pi-hole: https://pi-hole.net

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Contents:

00:00 - 13 year old Raspberry better than 7 year old Apple
00:41 - 1 in 1000
02:26 - Case and evolution of a Pi
05:04 - The Blue Raspberry Pi
07:15 - Encased
08:08 - First boot with modern Debian
10:20 - History while we wait
14:08 - It booted; let's get WiFi
15:56 - Browser conundrum
17:44 - Midori runs, but slow
19:01 - Pi-hole runs pretty well, actually