I just heard in a podcast, they talked about how powerful our devices are today but do not feel faster than they did 15 years ago and that it's because of what you write here.
A lot of very good suggestions already. I found meetups are also really good for finding people with similar interests to hang out with and another upside is usually you can also learn something new from meetups.
There is an election in Denmark today, I wonder if this will affect that. The governments website is not accessible at the moment because it uses Cloudflare.