I broke my OS after running this command
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
It only boots in command line with no network at all so repair commands do not work.
I dont want to reinstall since I use Zorin for a couple of years now.
Does the USB have repair options?
Yes, Zorin live USB stick contains "boot repair" that you can run. But I'm not sure if it will help in your situation.
Usually your entered command should not break the system as far as I know. Did you installed something else, e.g. wine32 or libs i386? When important packages are changed from 64bit to 32bit architecture then your system is broken.
Silly me when I asked help from ChatGPT.
I was basically wanted to install Steam with apt install steam and there are dependencies. I asked ChatGPT and gave me that command which pretty much I was not sure what it does.
Nothing else was installed.
I stick the USB in but the boot repair is not asking me anything what partition to repair. It basically just repairing itself aka the USB stick I guess?
I also tried booting in recovery mode and did a repair. But it looks like all is failing because I have no network. Errors saying Failed to fetch htps://
No, in the Live Mode, You start Boot Repair and it makes the Repair Stuff automatically.
But I think, You have a bigger Problem. The Command add the 32bit Architecture to a 64bit System. When You are in the Command Line try sudo dpkg --remove-architecture i386 to remove it and then reboot.
I already did this and getting an error
cannot remove architecture i386. currently in use by the database
I think I do have a bigger problem. I am currently backing up my Home. But if I can just make my network work, I may have a chance to do apt --fix-broken install command. If not, I would have to do a reinstall.
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When You can save Your Data, a fresh Installation maybe is the cleaner Option.
AI models are pretty useless when it comes to Linux.
I just did a websearch using that as searchterm and found this, which may help: apt - Cannot remove architecture i386 - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
There is definitely more to this.
Adding the architecture support alone will not change the architecture.
If you had run :
sudo apt install wine32
then that would have changed the system architecture.
Can't you even access with the other kernels from the GRUB 
?
You are already on the right track to backing up your data. You'll need to prepare yourself yourself for reinstallation.
It is a timely reminder that if you do have to reinstall remember to install Timeshift as well.
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