First off, feel you man. Must be rough.

About meeting new people, you could look into trips in the future with groups, a friend of mine met at least one person he keeps in touch with. Maybe there are some free/not too expensive hobbies you could engage in. Few examples: hiking, climbing, crafts In those places you’re bound to meet people and if you’re at least half decent, you’ll engage with the people there and those might just be your future friends

This is on my Ai wishlist now as well. Seen the use of Ai on jets and that already was quite interesting, can only imagine he raw performance were going to pump out by doing this

Radio garden

This lets you connect to a lot of stations across the globe, by moving the globe

Really seconding this. A lot of guides are also available with videos and OnePlus is notorious for being easy to unlock and flash. The op7pro is still a good device and if you have kept it till now you might as well give it a breath of fresh life by installing a new Android version.