While in SE Asia I would dual boot Windows specifically to drive out the ants that had found a home in my laptop. I could never get the same result with the Linux install I had at the time.
I first discovered the GIL in python when I tried to peg all 8 cores on my laptop using threading to heat my bed in the winter.
Yuck - you couldn’t chemically exterminate them?
And then have a laptop filled with poison residue and dead ants? Slowly heat them up and they'll leave on their own, ideally before cooking to death inside