It does seem like you should be able to find the mic and cover it enough to effectively disable audio, but I wasn't able to figure it out in 10 min and worried

It does seem like you should be able to find the mic and cover it enough to effectively disable audio, but I wasn't able to figure it out in 10 min and worried that whatever I did might not be permanent. I couldn't find any disassembly/DIY repair guides or teardowns for the Ring Cam products so I'm not sure I'd know what I was doing when looking to cut the mic. (I have thought about doing this before with other consumer hardware, like disabling an always-on buzzer on a dryer.) Some products (e.g. fellow Amazon subsidiary Blink) offer this feature in software but I don't know of any consumer-grade security cameras that have an explicitly supported hardware off switch.