Are there any preventative measures I should employ after my MacBook was seemingly bricked?
- Proceed to take it to an apple store for checking
- Run Apple Diagnostics on your Mac: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202731
- Run "/applications/utilities/disk utility" to check out the drive.
You will need to answer two prompts.
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Should you find a problem, you can boot in recovery mode ( hold down command + r then power on your machine ). Look for Disk Utility under Utilities. Run "repair disk".