Yeh I figured it needed to be active, couldn’t find any and the ones that claimed (and ultimately turned out to be lying) to be dual link weren’t active so unsurprising they didn’t work.
That’s a very interesting idea about the double conversion with displayport though, I never thought of that. Are the displayport to DVI dual link cables easier to get or are they unicorns as well?
I don’t know that that would have been better oddly enough. At least not without specific plain English references to which particular lies and from whom they came. The problem with your more fiery poetic version is that people will simply assume the liars and oath breakers being referred to are just whoever their particular ideological opponents are so it could easily be dodged by assuming they’re just calling out someone else.