By order of preference:

• water
• lemonade, iced, sweetned, with a mint leaf
• iced tea, home made
• ginger ale, again, home made

(stay with me, people, I’m just that annoying)

• ginger beer, non-alcoholic, again, home made
• a store brand energy drink and that drink alone; other drinks taste like disappointment and industrial solvents
• sparkling water, chilled, but only if Pedras Salgadas; it’s slightly bitter and acidic
• gin & tonic, in a chilled glass, for a late afternoon drink
• moscaranja, a mixed drink with Moscatel wine and fresh orange juice, high ball glass, with ice
• Pisang Ambon and orange juice, with ice, same presentation as above
• sangria, and this implies red wine, not champagne, sparkling wine, rosé, etc. Just a nice strong red wine, poured over fresh fruit, a bit of orange juice, sugar and a bit of sparkling water. With ice.
• chilled white wine. No ice. Watered wine tastes like dish water and sadness.
• coke, over ice, with a slice of lemon
• beer, if nothing else available and I’m walking home

I do that as well but for some reason it doesn’t have detrimental effects on me.

I often hit myself on the nose with the phone because I fall asleep. In the morning, it helps get my brain gearing into motion.

So swearing is the natural human booster and it is scientifically demonstrated?

I risk it is. It makes no sense why the space for the mail client is getting full while the rest of the disk is nearly empty.

LibreOffice saves with no problem to the disk. The browser saves small files with no issue. Dowloading large files, on the other hand, returns a error of no available storage space.

I’m just backing up all the files and reinstalling the system.

This is as close to the definition of a shitty idea as it can get.

I didn’t set a separate partition for mail. Thunderbird is in the general /home. But it appears to have reached a size of 6.1GB under imap/sent and that area is flagged as being out of space.

The email ocasionallly returns an error message of not having disk space available for new messages.

But when trying to make downloads to /home/downloads several have been aborted due to not having available space.

This makes no sense. With nearly 400GB of /home free, every user /home folder should just slowly fill that space as required/needed. But that is not what is happening. The free storage space is not being accessed

Thunderbird works. But I’m getting error messages about not having disk space available. When trying go make downloads, I get an error message from the browser. Using the disk analyzer in Mint, I can see the folder for Thunderbird and in there the ubfolder for the IMAP sent messages is full.

No reds

I have a headache after reading that.

df -h returns the following

Sistema de ficheiros Tamanho   Uso Livre Uso% Montado em
tmpfs                   1,4G  1,8M  1,4G   1% /run
efivarfs                128K   14K  110K  12% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda3                46G   13G   31G  29% /
tmpfs                   6,8G     0  6,8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   5,0M   12K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/sdb1               458G   64G  371G  15% /home
/dev/sda6               9,1G  400K  8,6G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda5                32G  9,5G   21G  32% /var
/dev/sda2               113M  6,2M  107M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs                   1,4G  136K  1,4G   1% /run/user/1000

/home has 371G free smartctl is not returning errors on the drive has well

With the memory chips getting the sharp uptick they are going through right now? Pass. Speed is not crucial for me. I don’t do any hardcore gaming nor run some speed critical apps. HDD’s cover my necessities.

df -h returns this

Sistema de ficheiros Tamanho   Uso Livre Uso% Montado em
tmpfs                   1,4G  1,8M  1,4G   1% /run
efivarfs                128K   14K  110K  12% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda3                46G   13G   31G  29% /
tmpfs                   6,8G     0  6,8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   5,0M   12K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/sdb1               458G   64G  371G  15% /home
/dev/sda6               9,1G  320K  8,6G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda5                32G  9,5G   21G  32% /var
/dev/sda2               113M  6,2M  107M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs                   1,4G  140K  1,4G   1% /run/user/1000

the dmesg output is simply huge running the command threw me a slew of messages can you point to what I should be looking at?

I got my first warning when trying to download some large files and at some point the browser just returned a message saying the download was aborted for not having enough space available. Nothing else.

After running a disk scan, as I know the 500GB HDD is essentially empty, is when I find out the Thunderbird folder is full. And somehow it is causing the system to flag the entire disk has full.

This is the general use computer of the house and there are more users on the system but I have the largest amount of files on it as I’m the primary user.

Yes. Still haven’t tried it.

Yes. Although recently I started getting errors with downloads, with warning of not having disk space.

Sistema de ficheiros Tamanho   Uso Livre Uso% Montado em
tmpfs                   1,4G  1,8M  1,4G   1% /run
efivarfs                128K   14K  110K  12% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda3                46G   13G   31G  29% /
tmpfs                   6,8G     0  6,8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   5,0M   16K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/sda6               9,1G  4,2M  8,6G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda2               113M  6,2M  107M   6% /boot/efi
/dev/sdb1               458G   64G  371G  15% /home
/dev/sda5                32G  9,6G   21G  32% /var
tmpfs                   1,4G  132K  1,4G   1% /run/user/1000

I don’t see any partition full.

Sistema de ficheiros Inodes  IUso ILivr UsoI% Montado em
tmpfs                  1,7M  1,2K  1,7M    1% /run
efivarfs                  0     0     0     - /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda3              3,0M  750K  2,2M   26% /
tmpfs                  1,7M     1  1,7M    1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                  1,7M     7  1,7M    1% /run/lock
/dev/sda6              597K    41  597K    1% /tmp
/dev/sda2                 0     0     0     - /boot/efi
/dev/sdb1               30M  133K   29M    1% /home
/dev/sda5              2,1M   94K  2,0M    5% /var
tmpfs                  348K   136  348K    1% /run/user/1000

Here is the output. I don’t see anything taxed.

First, write for yourself.

Not what the trends or market may be pointing to or wanting but what you would like or want to read yourself.

Second, just write.

Does not matter when, how, where… Just write. Let the words flow, sentences build, paragraphs form.

Third, write with no concern if it makes sense.

Our uncouncious mind has a voice of itself. Let it out. Most times, what is holding us back is something underneath the surface needing to get out.

Fourth, write now, read later.

Put it out now but allow yourself time to let whatever came out to cool and only then go read it again. It may not make it any further, it may be worthy of picking it further. Regardless, it will remember you of how were when it took form. Learn from it.

Fifth, write what you live in your mind.

We may be able to take someone on a journey with what we write but we are the only ones that know the minute details behind the veil and where all the threads left unravelled lead. We know the worlds we visit in a way no one will. Enjoy that privilege.

Sixth, write down a map of your stories.

Put down a framewire of what your work is supposed to grow into. Set the guidelines for yourself, how many chapters there will be, small ideas to insert into the story. And review it as the story build and evolves.

Seventh, write organically.

No story is set in stone, no matter how cristalized it may be in our mind. A sentence may throw the flow of the story in a previously unseen direction, a line of dialogue create entirely new branchings. Allow the story to tell itself, to grow, expand and evolve. Don’t try to hold it to a fixed, predetermined form or path.

Eighth, and final, ignore what others tell or advise you.

They know nothing, of you, your work, your mind. Devise a science of one. Explore your mind, discover what makes it work optimally, how to tune in, at will, into that specific mindset. And, above all else, be a little bit delusional: you are the best writer on the planet and what you write no one else can.

Go barroque. As in absurdly elaborate on what you throw at people you dislike.

Spanish have a saying that gets thrown at people that like to run their mouth. Very loosely translated it says something along the lines of “May you swallow a peacock and every every feather turn into a straight razor”. Takes some time to put it out. Gives a person time to get their blood settled.

But please don’t forget insults have always been basic and directed or sprouting from prejudice. I understand and respect what you are trying to put forward but it will not be am easy task.

We are basic creatures. We still go for what superficially differentiates one from another. It’s about anger and fear. It’s primal. Spinning this off and putting something elaborate and as personalized or generic as possible is a tough endeavour.

I personally find amusing to insert some nonsense into my speech when letting out an expletive and for some obscure reason I tend to go for vegetables and gardening.

You can be asked to go tend your cabbage patch when you miff me and I would really want to see you go away.

But this works very poorly outside my language.

Good luck on your quest and have fun.