My laptop camera is permanently covered with black electrical tape, but if it was uncovered there would really not be much to see except my bleary eyeballs and

My laptop camera is permanently covered with black electrical tape, but if it was uncovered there would really not be much to see except my bleary eyeballs and my pandemic-necessitated mad-scientist-looking self-inflicted haircut. I worry much more about the microphone, not just in my laptop, but in my phone, and in who knows what other devices that have the insidious things hidden away. I wish there was a way to block microphones with tape to kill any audio pickup when not wanted. It's harder to manage than cameras, making camera covers something like privacy theater if the microphones are going to be left unblocked. Yeah I know about the Pinephone with its microphone kill switch, but that switch is apparently quite a pain to operate. If I get a Pinephone I'm likely to leave the mic permanently shut off, and simply use an external or bluetooth mic if I want to make a voice call.