/var/ memory resources hog half my disk space

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It’s either journal or pacman cache, see this:

To check size of those caches do:

du -sh "/var/cache/pacman/pkg"
du -sh "/var/log/journal"

In terms of journal i’d do something like that, in case you don’t need to store gigabites of logs:

sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=50M
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