lea2d ago

hey fedi i need tech support. after the latest ubuntu update it asked for my birth date and i accidentally mistyped and put the year 2015 instead of 2005. i clicked "finish later" when it asked me to do ID verification and now my computer thinks I'm 10 and i can't change it anymore. the problem is that now i can't access the USB drive with all my uni documents anymore:

$ sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /run/media/lea/documents [sudo] password for lea: mount: error: compliance requirements not met
please help i have a paper due next week 😭

Show threadEfi (nap pet) 🦊💤13h ago
@lea plz tell me ur jokin
Show threadlea
@efi no its real. many such cases
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Show threadEfi (nap pet) 🦊💤12h ago
@lea  we're doomed
Show threadEfi (nap pet) 🦊💤12h ago
@lea also, try reverting the packages to before the update and just pin em
Show threaddesirable_dialogue11h ago

@efi @lea
I still can't tell if this is a joke or real.

Reality became so absurd, it's becoming harder to differentiate between fiction and real.
We're doomed in each case.

Show threadMad Engineering12h ago

@lea @efi I think I'd treat this as any other credential lockout mishap.

If the disk isn't encrypted, I'd boot from a load to Ram distribution like Knoppix, then edit the user fields,.or failing that, backing up the files, deleting the user, and then recreating the account with the correct information this time and restoring the backup.