Removing the file preview on the right side of the editor in VS Code

This beauty appeared after a recent update, and it is very distracting to me.

I searched through the menus, but didn’t find any setting to remove it. Is there any way to banish it from the editor?

This is called the minimap, and, as stated in that link,

If you would like to disable minimap, you can set "editor.minimap.enabled": false in your user or workspace settings.

Once you save the settings file, the minimap will be gone.