fix(core): only run nx console background check if daemon is active

[MaxKless]

Current Behavior

running commands while the nx daemon is disabled will check the nx console status - which sends a message to the daemon and thus enables it.
This can cause weird race conditions.

Expected Behavior

As it's a non-critical check, we should only send messages to the daemon if it's running.

Related Issue(s)

Fixes #

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Nx Cloud has identified a possible root cause for your failed CI:

Our failing Maven e2e tests are encountering an external service issue where Spring Initializr (start.spring.io) now rejects Spring Boot 3.4.0 and requires >=3.5.0. This is unrelated to the daemon client changes in this PR and represents an environment_state failure caused by the external API updating its compatibility requirements.

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