Well this teaches me two things, dont do auto updates and look here before I give up and reformat my machine 
I was using Linux mint 19.3 and after giving up because of this problem and deciding to upgrade to Linux mint 20 I stumbled on to the problem while looking for a guide to reinstall.
See here: Installing Home Assistant Supervised on Ubuntu 18.04.4
I guess im venturing in to debian. That still works, right?