# - Flirc's upstream Flirc.desktop has 'Exec=Flirc' (no absolute path), # so graphical session menu launches resolve through the session # PATH, which on many distros doesn't have /usr/local/bin first ...

This is a somewhat overspec'd setup - using an SSD rather than running things off an SD card apparently gains little (see this post from Christian Hewitt) and you can almost certainly use a base 2GB ...