You could use modern flyout. It allows you to increase or decrease (also to 0) the number active of media sessions displayed. Source: about 1 year ago

If you don't want to mess around with any of your program's settings, you can install ModernFlyouts and change its' settings to never show any popups. Source: about 1 year ago

Modern​Flyouts for better looking flyouts for volume and media. Source: over 1 year ago

This may not be the perfect fix you are looking for, but I faced the same problem as you (wanted flyouts but also wanted explorerpatcher for other functionality that it brought), and my solution was to use ModernFlyouts (link here). Source: over 1 year ago

You can try ModernFlyouts, it has a few customization options so maybe you can get a more minimal experience that way https://modernflyouts-community.github.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

Prior to 3.1.x the dat subdirectory didn't exist yet but data.base was present somewhere, possibly in the src subdirectory instead. I don't know whether it goes as far back as hack 1.x or even nethack 2.x. The source code for a bunch of old versions is present at https://nethackwiki.com/ but I'm not sure whether the data files are all there too. The source code for the most recent released version (3.6.7) is... Source: about 1 year ago

I am not sure what extra benefits the Steam version has, but the game is available for free either as download on nethack.org, or to play online at something like alt.org/nethack or hardfought.org. Source: about 1 year ago

You don't even need two people to play D&D, Nethack is great! Source: about 1 year ago

I've always been fond of the last quote on nethack.org. Source: over 1 year ago

It was discussed here last fall, when the home page for nethack.org was updated to mention it. The blurb includes a few other tiny screen shots and says the exhibit is scheduled to be open until mid-July. Source: over 1 year ago