For about two years I've defaulted to Loom for the thing every remote engineer does ten times a week: recording a thirty-second clip instead of typing three paragraphs in Slack. It works, it's fast, and the share link lands in someone's inbox before I've finished my coffee. The problem is that every one of those clips lives on a server I don't control, behind a paywall that keeps creeping upward, and the free tier keeps getting smaller. So when Cap started showing up in my feeds as "the open-source Loom," I cleared my default and ran it as my primary screen recorder for a couple of weeks on an M2 MacBook Air. This is what I found. Cap (cap.so) is an open-source, privacy-first screen recorder built around a simple thesis: you should be able to record, share, and store your videos without handing them to a vendor by default.…